Measuring Venezuelan American Impact on the US Economy
There's a project on the works to do exactly what the headline says
Here you go, in case you needed a few reminders.
Can the ruling clique really be deluded enough to think CLAPs are sustainable even in the medium term? Or is the regime now not just openly destructive but, even worse, openly self-destructive?
In an exceptionally lucid and harrowing piece in The Observer, Emma Graham-Harrison introduces us to the Venezuelan teenagers turning to prostitution to stave off hunger.
The hidden ghosts of xenophobia and discrimination are coming out, but that’s overridden by an enormous group of people who help Venezuelans in their journey to a new and more dignified life.
2018 was the year when Venezuelan traditional migratory patterns were altered: It became the country of origin in the Americas with the highest numbers of displaced people. Check out the key milestones in what became the year of Venezuelan migration.
On the day of what would have been Chavez’s 64th birthday. Let’s make sure the world doesn’t forget how it was him, and not his successor, who turned Latin America’s most prosperous nation into a place of crisis and despair.
A few lines to address the latest bit of naughtiness from our founder
Our crisis should not be distorted to fit the biases of U.S. commentators more focused on antagonizing Donald Trump than on helping bring about a democratic outcome
Bipartisan consensus over Venezuela declines. The chance for decisive U.S. action is slipping away. Trump’s next move could determine Venezuela’s future or the end of Machado
Cuban historian Armando Chaguaceda compares Machado’s courting of Trump to Mandela’s Soviet ties and the Churchill-Stalin alliance
Reacting to backlash in Rome and fearing a popular revolt, the Maduro regime arrested more dissidents instead of releasing them, and harassed Cardinal Baltazar Porras