At first glance, the current diplomatic scuffle regarding Venezuela’s fight to take over the presidency of Mercosur that, ahem, they are perfectly entitled to might seem like drunks fighting over an empty bottle. But there's more at stake in this fight than meets the eye.
When vacation rolls around, the last thing a kid wants to do is have to go back to school. But in Venezuela, for many school is the only place they can get a solid meal. In this special report, we highlight a plan by the Miranda state government to use state schools to feed hungry kids during their school break.
It kills doctors and nurses to know their patients are being served food that isn't nutritious enough —or even just plain enough. We talk with doctors, patients and catering staff at the Universtario: a hospital in a hunger crisis.
Maduro is Yoko Ono. Discuss.
Reading about an obscure cancer drug is a constant reminder of the tragedy that has befallen us, and many Venezuelans.
My big, fat, trying-to-survive-Maduro wedding.
The extended Venezuelan family is a thing of the past. It has now been replaced by 0’s and 1’s, by cold LCD screens, beeps and buzzes.
No flour, no chicken, no friends, no help, no social life.
Few people who live in exile can get through the day without the Venezuelan crisis invading their insides.
Survivor’s guilt for Venezuelans in exile.
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