30 years later, polio is back in Venezuela. The victims, as usual, are the most vulnerable: unimmunized Warao people. The thing the government doesn’t get is that the there’s no screwing around with this stuff.
A few decades ago we were the rich, politically stable, democratic kids on the block in our neighborhood. Tables have turned and Venezuela is perceived, and portrayed, painfully accurately all over the media.
With their presidential election, Colombians thought this long campaign was finally over. But the results of the first round suggest it’s all just getting started.
The OAS passed a major resolution on Venezuela this Tuesday with 19 votes in favor, including one from the Dominican Republic that took us all by surprise. Is it possible they finally know what we’re dealing with?
Jesús and Mario aren’t related, they are joined together by their hateful, #fakenews style. If only the illegitimate Hate Law applied to chavista journalists.
After shortages, oppression and shortcomings, Venezuelan migrants stay illegally in the U.S., because they don’t understand how risky it is to mess with American immigration laws.
There’s plenty of studies about how to transition back into democracy after dictatorships fall. Venezuela managed to do it the other way around.
The growing diaspora is undoubtedly affecting critical sectors of the country, like healthcare, education and electrical infrastructure.
The Libertador trusted and admired Sucre. So Bolívar’s enemies got rid of the man who could become his successor.
‘Totalitarianism’ isn’t just another word for ‘dictatorship’. It’s different, and much worse: a system that destroys all human bonds in a society. It’s something we hadn’t really seen in Venezuela...until now.
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