Nobody Knows Why Saleh Was Released (But We Can Guess)
Lorent Saleh is a rebel who didn’t need political parties, he fought cops and claimed he’d use snipers. No one backed him up then, and nobody knows why he’s out of jail. Or do we?
Lorent Saleh is a rebel who didn’t need political parties, he fought cops and claimed he’d use snipers. No one backed him up then, and nobody knows why he’s out of jail. Or do we?
12 Venezuelan doctors residing in the United States volunteered for the USNS Comfort’s journey to South America, hoping to help some of their compatriots flooding the region, in a humanitarian mission labeled by the Venezuelan government as a disguised invasion plot.
Moisés Naím wrote a piece for El País about the disappearance of physical cash and how cryptocurrencies are challenging our notions of what money is. Alejandro Machado takes on these two complex issues and goes deeper into the discussion.
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Ilich Ramírez, known as Carlos The Jackal, our most bloodthirsty, infamous terrorist has a dream for Venezuela. He sits behind bars, and will never make those dreams come true, but how would Venezuelans react to his offer?
Every day, dozens of children and teenagers roam freely on the streets of Chacao municipality. They form gangs, beg for food or something to sell, steal what they can from shops and rob people. The government, of course, denies this happens so they won’t have to fix it.
The inhabitants of Central Venezuela can’t escape the fits of rage of tortured souls that still roam and haunt the land, to punish wrongdoers or search for justice, atonement or vengeance.
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.
A Venezuelan in the research team of the most recent Nobel Prize in Medicine winner brought to mind the story of Baruj Benacerraf, the only Venezuelan who has received the price. Saying Benacerraf’s was a triumph for Venezuelan science is inaccurate, but it did help cement the somewhat successful process to make science a serious discipline in the country.
The Chilean Left created a petition to stop the Trump administration from intervening in Venezuela. We don’t think an online petition has that kind of power and Chile seems to forget who helped them out of their last dictatorship.
You might have read this in February, as the petro was supposed to be launched in February. Maduro even hit a symbolical “on” switch pressing enter last week. And still… cue crickets.
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