#BoardingPaz. Entradas a un país migrante is a multimedia conference that centers around the issues Venezuelan immigrants face all around the world. How do we relate to the immigration process and phenomenon? But most importantly: how do we talk about it?
Turns out, it’s not only chavistas who remain in denial, who alter and distort reality or have trouble admitting and dealing with facts and existing, real life problems. Now, these problems extend to opposition leaders and citizens, too.
During the 19th century, many Venezuelan cities modernized and found ways to implement the technology available to them. Maracaibo, despite everything that happens today, was the first town to use electricity for public lighting.
The government created the carnet de la patria as an instrument for control and discrimination. Nonetheless, the fact that we’ve rendered it pointless or might do so, was something the government didn’t consider.
Investigative journalism site Armando.Info suffered a new attack, on two fronts this time: four members of their staff were forbidden to leave the country and its website was blocked in Venezuela.
Caraqueños were nervous because of what would happen on Monday. What Nicolás Maduro said during a mandatory broadcast on Friday was just the panic cherry on top of the fear flavored ice cream.
Big changes are coming and no one seems to understand how they will work. Wages will be anchored to an unexisting but centralized cryptocurrency, five zeros will be removed from the bolivar and fuel will have a new international price. What does it mean? We’re all in the dark, trying to guess.
In a bizarre, rambling address, President Maduro announced a genuinely weird, heterodox economic adjustment that left Venezuelans at a loss for words.
The Venezuelan Center for Disease Classification (CEVECE) was founded in 1955 and for years spearheaded the region’s efforts to develop trustable, comparable and standardized epidemiologic data. Now, its future looks as grim as expected in a country facing the worst health crisis in the continent.
Venezuelan Art students deal with many obstacles: little access to technical resources and supplies, crime, decaying infrastructures, few teachers left, a practically nonexistent industry and no hope of things getting better any time soon. How come there are still people studying art, then?
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