Cooking With No Gas, No Power
In Barquisimeto, the sophisticated traditional cuisine has been replaced by survival with alternative ingredients and artisanal cookers.
Politics
Living in Their Cars: Gasoline rationing in Mérida
After getting used to spending days and nights queuing up for fuel, Mérida citizens must now adapt to the classic socialist move of setting restrictions in every service station.
Conspiracy Theories Make Inroads in Venezuelan Politics
Our political discussion and the limits on free press have given more resonance to outlandish interpretations of what’s happening. A new paper explains why their impact could increase further, thanks to state-sponsored disinformation.
A Measure of Our Fragility
How bad did Venezuela get? Among the many ways to answer that question, we can consider Fund for Peace’s Fragile State Index 2019, one of the multidisciplinary approaches that can tell the magnitude of our drama.
An Unraveling Nation-State
Venezuela needed more than four centuries to become a real country. Now, it has started dismantling again, along the petrostate and the army that used to hold it together.
The Voices of Internal Migration
As in the country’s pre-modern era, Venezuelans are moving from their hometowns to the capital, or other cities, looking for water, power, food, jobs. Here are a few testimonies of an increasingly common phenomenon.
The Uneven Trajectory of Guaidó’s Diplomacy
The representatives of the caretaker president are critical to build and sustain the pressure on Maduro. But several complications muddle the always troubled waters of the ancient trade of international relations.
Bachelet Report Released: Damning in All Fronts for the Maduro Regime
After the High Commissioner’s high-profile visit last month, the full UN report about human rights in Venezuela was made public. And it irrefutably confirms what many try to deny.
Fascism: The Left Project that Keeps Giving
What does the torture-murder of Captain Rafael Acosta Arévalo have to do with a simultaneous outburst of violence in Portland, Oregon by Antifa (“anti-fascist”) protestors? Just everything, that’s all.
An Explosive Venezuelan Diaspora Threatens Latin America
The Organization of American States expects that a quarter of the population of Venezuela will have left the country by the end of 2020. What’s the hemisphere doing about it?
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