GEHA’s Best of 2018, Part III (July - September)
We continue our trip down article lane with the third quarter of 2018, which can be split in two periods: before and after Red Friday, a night that we won’t remember fondly.
We continue our trip down article lane with the third quarter of 2018, which can be split in two periods: before and after Red Friday, a night that we won’t remember fondly.
2018 was quite a challenging year for Venezuela, but Caracas Chronicles was there to cover its different angles. Here’s some of the best writing from the first quarter of the year.
After 72 hours of cursing brittle banana leaves, contentious almond-roasting, YouTube scouting, Scannone-hating and pork lard handling, I made my first hallaca. It was gruelling. It was worth it.
In Venezuela, we don’t have A Christmas Carol, a It’s a Wonderful Life, we don’t even have a Home Alone. But we have Herrera Luque, and one of his tales hits a bit close to home this year...
Designer Manuel Lara has a special knack for looking at the ravishing Caracas all around us that we barely stop to notice.
Most Venezuelans would kill for a chance of a dollar paying job. I thought I would, too. Then I got a dream offer, did the math... and realized I couldn’t afford to take it.
Milan-based, Maracucha-run jewelry brand Aliita’s charity collection for 2018 is donating 100% of its proceeds to Un Milagro de Amor, an inspiring Maracaibo foundation that helps critically malnourished children.
At its zenith in the 1960s and 70s, El Nacional was the foremost clearinghouse for our country’s rich, vibrant intellectual life. That was decades ago. The paper that just shut down was very different.
For Nilsa, fleeing to Brazil was a matter of life or death: she knew the Brazilian health system would give her the antiretrovirals she could no longer get in Venezuela.
If you’re poor in Venezuela, the police can just enter your home, execute your teenage kid and walk out, facing zero scrutiny from anyone. It happened to Nancy. She told exactly how.
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