From ‘Red-Tiled-Roofs’ to ‘Gray Facade’ Caracas
The vice president of Citizen Safety ordered that all facades in downtown Caracas must be painted in a specific shade of gray to commemorate the Battle of Carabobo.
Life
An In-Depth Look at Women’s Slavery in the Mining Arc
Recent research carried out by UCAB Guayana’s Center for Human Rights sheds light on the patterns of forced, sexual, and labor exploitation of girls, teenagers and women in the mines. Two of the researchers explain the magnitude of these findings
A Response to ‘The Venezuelan Youth Movement Opposing Democracy’
In a recent piece for Caracas Chronicles, Carlos Rodríguez López links the rise of what he calls an authoritarian nationalism to an artificial nostalgia. For me, this phenomenon is about political exclusion
The Fake Vindication of Venezuelan Indigenous People
What the Constitution and the laws established for Indigenous peoples and their institutional presence during the Chávez years is different from what happened later
Immunity for Sale: the Black Market of Vaccines in Venezuela
As everyone expected, the State’s response to the urgent need of immunizing the population against COVID-19 has been slow and chaotic, and made a shady new business emerge
Ymago, a Mérida Production Company Shining Bright on Streaming Platforms
Despite the many limitations, José Manuel Romero and Erika Rodríguez generate documentary content being watched all over the world
Sex Assistant: a Venezuelan Short Film About Sexuality in Disability
Andrés González Majul and Daniela Berlet Rendiles tell the story of their sex life as a couple in wheelchairs in a 20-minute-long film which is already winning awards. This is the story of how it was made
The End of Innocence
MeToo has reached Venezuela, finally, with a frenzy of accusations in social media, the respective political deformations, and one suicide so far. The country has some days of long-delayed complicated conversations ahead
Human Rights Watch Claims Abuse Against Civilians in the Apure Conflict
The NGO collected testimonies of raids and executions by the military in the area where the Venezuelan forces are fighting a FARC rogue group
The Globalization of Harina P.A.N.
Empresas Polar already has four factories producing the “official” arepa corn flour in Colombia, the U.S. and Italy. Now, they prepare the next step: frozen products and a restaurant franchise
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