Cemetery El Cuadrado can no longer offer a final resting space. Graverobbers, lack of maintenance and government negligence are threatening what little is left of historic memories, art and peace for the deceased.
Public transportation has new prices. Some services have increased by 1000%, others by 400% and others by 1.250.000%. Will this higher fare price help improve a broken industry? We don’t think so.
The Orinoco river reached and surpassed the biggest flood level in its history. Meanwhile, the government's negligence has left 11,000 people without a place to stay or food on their tables.
A national strike seems like a good way to demonstrate how people feel about the new set of economic measures imposed by Maduro last week. But when people are left stranded in a broken economy, and they desperately need money to eat, a strike doesn’t seem like the adequate protest.
In Venezuela, those who should theoretically live in a magic bubble against the crisis, have stories of resistance. Here’s the case of a banker who hasn’t gotten hold of cash in a long, long time.
The government created the carnet de la patria as an instrument for control and discrimination. Nonetheless, the fact that we’ve rendered it pointless or might do so, was something the government didn’t consider.
Maduro tried to clear the air through a Facebook Live broadcast, but he left us with even more questions and a clear understanding that the so-called recovery plan is nothing more than the same old 21st Century Socialism with a face-lift.
Andrés Velázquez, legitimate Bolívar governor, offered more details from Voluntad Popular headquarters about the national strike that’ll take place on Tuesday, August 21
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