Belkis Lost Her Life
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, November 14, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, November 14, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
The hotly trailed meeting with Bondholders at Palacio Blanco amounted to a boring speech by Tareck, barely different from the usual stream of propaganda pablum on Venezuelan State TV. God help us all.
Nicolás Maduro tried to look like a wise, democratic leader in the Salvados interview from yesterday. Whether he did or not is something we’ll let you decide.
The UN Security Council will discuss Venezuela today. Although informal, the meeting is a step in the right direction, with the right voices and, hopefully, the right conclusions.
The bolichico par excellence, Juan Planchard feeds on suffering and vice. He's fictitious, but so close to truth that you're gonna rage… bad.
The government is doing its best to ensure the military have fine health care. So how long will it be before the crisis reaches them too?
Words like "inflation" and "hyperinflation" are thrown about causally. These are the faces and voices of hunger behind those words.
We know people are hungry in Venezuela, but to see it in the face of our most vulnerable is a gut wrenching experience I won't easily forget.
It has become tradition: each year he growls and drums his fingers thinking of how he’ll keep Christmas from coming to Venezuela. What does the Grinch have in store this time?
It’s easy to lose sight of just how vicious the dictatorship can be when it decides that you're next. You are left completely without recourse. Try it on for size.
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