Beggars Outside Venezuelan Supermarkets Dare to be Choosers
What happens when you are bad at saying no and there’s too many people struggling that need you to say yes. In the land of the hungry, he who can afford groceries is king.
Life
Five Years of Post-Chavismo and His Siembra Seems Grim
Every Venezuelan remembers his burial. Now, five years later, Chavismo has proven it can survive without its founder despite everyone’s predictions.
Meet the Go-To Person in Bucaramanga for Venezuelan Immigrants in Need
Alba Cecilia Pereira has been living in Colombia since 2004. She founded Entre2Tierras, to help Venezuelan immigrants get jobs, housing, medicine and food when they get there.
Measles Epidemic: Another Stain in an Already Terrible Public Health Track Record
PAHO alerts on the resurgence of measles in the Americas, Venezuela leads the way with over 800 cases and becomes a public health threat for the whole region.
Is Our Fate the Same as Cuba’s?
The irony is embarrassing: in a family of professional political commentators and rabid whiskey-chugging, fortune-telling pundits, it was my Prados-del-Este hypochondriac grandmama who was the most foreboding.
Doctors in Venezuela Reluctantly Acknowledge Their Holiday, Instead of Celebrating
Today is National Doctor’s day. Bravery, courage and dedication. That’s all we can celebrate. Healing is both a choice and a calling you can’t escape and Venezuelan doctors don’t want to.
The left in the Americas and the Problem with Losing the Moral High Ground on Venezuela
We take a political, metaphorical road trip across the American continent to try to understand why the left is so quiet and the right is so vocal in their respective points of view about chavismo’s actions and policies.
Hey, Chavismo! Calling Yourself a Feminist Won’t Cut It, You Need to Act Like It, Too
Today, on International Women’s Day, Venezuelan women are more powerless than ever. Chavismo claims to be a feminist revolution but they are nothing more than women users and abusers.
Contradicting Viewpoints on the Transition: Liberalism Must Come First
Venezuelan economists Ricardo Hausmann and Quico Toro shared their views this week on how an eventual transition should go. One of them is wrong and it ain’t Hausmann, obviously, but our Executive Editor.
Women’s Rights in Venezuela: a Hypocritical Mirage Called “Feminist Revolution”
On International Women’s Day, we examine chavismo calling themselves feminists. It’s like when they call themselves humanitarians: an outright lie.
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