Milan-based, Maracucha-run jewelry brand Aliita’s charity collection for 2018 is donating 100% of its proceeds to Un Milagro de Amor, an inspiring Maracaibo foundation that helps critically malnourished children.
Ecuador has received a large share of Venezuela's third wave immigrants — a mass influx of poorer, less well educated Venezuelans. Many have found jobs, but 87% get paid less-than-minimum wage. Not surprisingly, we're not always welcome here.
At its zenith in the 1960s and 70s, El Nacional was the foremost clearinghouse for our country’s rich, vibrant intellectual life. That was decades ago. The paper that just shut down was very different.
After years of resistance, El Nacional stops its print edition indefinitely. For the hegemony, this is the endgame of a long strategy to control newspapers in Venezuela.
For Nilsa, fleeing to Brazil was a matter of life or death: she knew the Brazilian health system would give her the antiretrovirals she could no longer get in Venezuela.
If you’re poor in Venezuela, the police can just enter your home, execute your teenage kid and walk out, facing zero scrutiny from anyone. It happened to Nancy. She told exactly how.
Your car breaks down on a lonely stretch of road. Suddenly, your life is in danger. Four years after Monica Spear's family was gruesomely murdered, two baseball stars are killed. And a nation seethes.
During a mandatory broadcast this afternoon, Nicolás Maduro called himself a “free and independent president”, accused his usual enemies of plotting against him and said that the economy is going great, thank you very much.
Edgar Sanabria is the President you never heard of. But his three month stint as care-taker in 1958 and 1959 did leave us one lasting legacy: National Park Status for El Ávila, the mountain flanking Caracas.
Under unprecedented onslaught from illegal miners and DGCIM, indigenous people in Venezuela’s South East have had enough.
We’ve been able to hang on for 22 years in one of the craziest media landscapes in the world. We’ve seen different media outlets in Venezuela (and abroad) closing shop, something we’re looking to avoid at all costs. Your collaboration goes a long way in helping us weather the storm.
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