5 de Julio of The Walking Dead
Maracaibo’s throbbing comercial heart looks like a post-apocalyptic zombiescape these days.
Politics
A Petrostate Without Any Petrol: Gas Shortages Spread Nationwide
In Venezuela, gasoline is now, quite literally, priceless. Which is just as well, because there isn’t any.
I Saw Kids Fainting from Hunger in the Classroom, So I Decided to Do Something About It
Millions of Venezuelans are facing malnutrition. I know I can’t fix the entire problem. But, together with a couple dozen volunteers, we can help a few hundred at-risk young people and retirees beat acute hunger. So we do.
Pretty Please, Mr. Mass Murderer, Could You Leave the Country, If It’s Not Too Much Trouble?
Colombia’s vicious ELN guerrilla kills Venezuelan soldiers...and Venezuela’s Defense Minister treats them like they’re the Godfather.
Before Chávez, Eight Out of Nine Venezuelans Had Regular Access to Water. Today: One in Five
Despite the country’s huge freshwater reserves, only 18% of Venezuelans have regular access to water. Who doesn’t have trouble finding it? Mosquitoes... when the time comes to lay eggs.
Declawing Gaita: How Protest Music Disappeared from Zulia’s Airwaves
Venezuela’s Western state of Zulia has a long and proud tradition of protest music: gaiteros have always raised their voices against injustice. But under growing pressure from the government, radio stations no longer dare to air it.
Crisis Puts Little Leaguers’ Big Dreams Cruelly Out of Reach
For kids in Venezuela’s hard-scrabble areas, it used to be the dream: get noticed by a pro scout and leave the barrio behind for the Big Leagues. But try as they might to hang on to the dream, the crisis is wringing the hope out of a new generation of peloteros.
In Buttoned-Down Mérida, Despair Sets Off a Wave of Suicides
Suicides are spreading across Venezuela: the latest iteration of a comprehensive public health crisis. In the Andean state of Mérida, with its more reserved culture, the problem is at its worst.
Sabino Romero, the Chavista Yupka Chieftain Who Turned on the Revolution
Sabino Romero, son of the eponymous indigenous leader murdered in 2013, talks to CC about expropriated lands, State negligence and native employment rates.
The Venezuelan Digital Crackdown Gets An Emergency Call From Freedom House
The report, Freedom On The Net, finds the internet mostly doesn’t work in Venezuela. And when it does, you get punished for using it.
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