How the Olympics Helped Me Reconnect with Venezuela
These games and the performance of our athletes are doing something strange to migrants like me: making us feel proud of the country that we felt had betrayed us
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Our New Gold Standard
A Queen, A 36-year-old BMX rider, a weight lifter from the Cota 905, and a self-taught phys ed teacher from rural town Barlovento are just some of the characters leading an unlikely historic generation of Venezuelan athletes
Not even the Olympics can rescue TVes's ratings...
I found this astonishing: Rubén Limardo’s gold-medal winning effort in London got about 1/3rd to 1/5th of the ratings on TVes as the regular old Telenovela gets every...
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