Rain & Tamarindo Juice
In Maracaibo, if you get any water, it’s most likely brown and you’d be lucky: most people have to buy their water or wait for rain.
Politics
Surviving The Adobecalypse
After the Adobe scare, the Venezuelan digital community keeps working under extremely hostile conditions, in unpredictable ground.
A New NGO Wants to Challenge Our Crisis
RedRETO wants to tackle some of Venezuelans’ most urgent problems, by joining forces with other entities on the ground and abroad. You can help them—and 254 other people—on their first project.
John Carlin’s Dream
The British journalist who wrote the book that inspired the movie Invictus was rejected at the airport by the Venezuelan regime. What if he had been allowed his entry and we’d talk about sports and reconciliation?
Perijá, the Other Frontier of Discrimination
A new tragedy adds to the historic drama and vulnerability of the Yukpa and Barí indigenous communities, in the mountains of Zulia.
Voices from Inside Sebin
A documentary made by NGO 14 Lawyers exposes the repressive dynamics of the regime’s political police, its gruesome practices, harassment of human rights lawyers and even pride for being so cruel
The ‘Great Solution for Caracas’ Became a Huge Problem
The Caracas Metro is in a state of technical shutdown: it can’t satisfy the most basic needs of its users. How ruined is what once was our capital’s pride?
Dollarized Goodbyes
The days of wakes in funeral homes and burials in cemeteries are long gone. Cremation has become the solution for caraqueños who can't pay the steep prices of funeral services.
The Fernando Albán Foundation
One year after SEBIN agents killed opposition councilman Fernando Albán, his widow works to honor his memory.
Children Getting Lost in the South
Venezuelan NGOs discovered a new migratory phenomenon: unaccompanied minors traveling through the mines in Guayana.
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