The blackouts will most likely keep happening, according to experts. In a special session outdoors, the AN approved Venezuela’s re-entry to the TIAR. Guaidó cautioned that it’s not a button to solve everything. The IMF says our economy is imploding.
This story, which happened during the national blackout of March, focuses on the drama for a single family and the extent of the complex humanitarian emergency, in all its horror.
An effective campaign contributed the beloved Caracas Children’s Museum to reopen its doors right on time for Children’s Day after 350 meters of cable were stolen from its facilities
Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, many of them children, are camping near the Peruvian-Chilean border, in a true limbo of paperwork, suffering and chaos.
If things weren’t absurd enough, now Nicolás Maduro meets with an Indian guru the same way he meets with the UN’s Human Rights High Commissioner. And the spirit-man himself? He’s exactly what you’d expect.
Cuban-American scholar Javier Corrales points out that the neighboring nations have been relatively up for the challenge regarding the Venezuelan diaspora, but for how long will that last?
The spontaneous dollarization, accelerated by blackouts and remittances, is threatening to restrict the legal currency to those who are forced to use it, and to distort the economy even more than it already is.
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.
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.
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