In his book Venezuela’s Collapse: The Long Story of How Things Fell Apart, Venezuelan author Carlos Lizarralde unearths the uncomfortable subject of race and ethnicity to explain how Chavismo destroyed the country
This historical essay on how race and ethnicity kept impacting society and economy from colonial times to the Chavista devastation launches today. We offer the first pages as a glimpse to Carlos Lizarralde’s powerful and provocative arguments
While valuable public art is falling apart, Caracas mayors install cartoon sculptures to image-wash their governments.
After a prolonged drought of international tourism in Venezuela, there are signs that the industry is slowly recovering.
Venezuelan rock has some big names like Sentimiento Muerto, Zapato 3 and Caramelos de Cianuro, as well as more recent projects like La Vida Boheme. But this one band has an unique reach through many generations
After a long crisis, Venezuelan cinema is reconnecting with local audiences –and succeeding abroad– while exploring new dimensions and facing sensitive national topics
The Bolivarian revolution, in all effect, is a revolution. The almost unnoticed passing of Gustavo Cisneros and the erasure of cultural products of the Chataing Era show the extent of Chavismo's impact in our collective memory.
Let’s take the release of a “new” song to look at the impact the band had in the music culture of this country: nothing less than trailblazing rock and English among an audience so far focused on traditional genres in Spanish
Mass migration led some of us to appropriate a surname with negative connotations created in Colombia decades ago, just like our ancestors seemed to assume the moniker that named our country.
More and more legendary and contemporary compositions are being played in symphonies abroad, as world-class Venezuelan composers, conductors and musicians gain influence in the global classical circuit
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