American Airlines Left Us Pretty Much Alone in the Dark
At first, it was temporary, but on March 28th American Airlines announced the decision to suspend all flights to and from Venezuela for good. Just how trapped Venezuelans really are?
Politics
Confronting Maduro’s Propaganda Machine in Canada
A Venezuelan scholar based in Ottawa explains how different groups of leftist activists are coordinated by the dictatorship and allies like Russia, to agitate and spread lies at universities, media and the streets of North America.
Humanitarian Aid Retakes the Central Stage
Amid the overwhelming effects of two nationwide blackouts in the same month, the International Red Cross announces that it will start to distribute humanitarian aid in the country, along with the Catholic Church. Both the regime and Guaidó’s camp will move the struggle back to the main subject of our health crisis.
Notes for a Real Solidarity Movement
In this essay, a veteran of the American Left traces the evolution of the mind frame among activists that links a leftist ruling party with the people, melting both categories into one single blind spot. This is how the Left became unable to see a dictatorship in the Maduro regime.
Maduro Is "Good" at One Thing: Discouraging Defections
To understand how a regime with such awful performance can endure the steadfast calls for its demise, one must look at its capacity to punish treason, an old and effective tool in the dark arts of dictatorship.
How Chavismo Lost La Vega
I have lived for 14 years in one of the former chavista strongholds in Caracas, a low-income network of barrios with around 200,000 people, and I've seen how hardship and repression destroyed Maduro’s influence over my neighbors.
Airport, Unplugged
I was supposed to go back to Ecuador. But instead of going to the airport and saying goodbye—for now—to Venezuela, I ended up in the midst of the consequences of the second national blackout in 17 days.
A Country Interrupted
Photo by Gabriela Mesones Rojo Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Paul Simon 20 days ago, Venezuela spent four and a half...
In Venezuela, Kids With Cancer Need True Heroes
In Venezuela, pediatric oncology patients and their relatives struggle with a parent’s worst nightmare... and with a collapsed health system. Fundanica, a foundation in Valencia, walks with them every step of the way.
Behind the Gold Mining Company That Props Up Maduro’s Regime
The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on the State-run CVG Minerven, used as a front to hide the illegal extraction of gold by armed gangs, Colombian guerrilla and military, with tremendous damage to the environment and local communities.
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