A French journalist who has covered several war zones around the world (and is on her way to report on the upcoming American elections) tells us how her time in Venezuela introduced her to a country that’s key for the continent
While the Nicolás Maduro government is suggesting discriminatory measures against older people, civilians are building new networks and projects to protect them
Living in multicultural Toronto, the Black Lives Matter movement is experienced in different ways. This is what it means for my own complex Latina identity
The first class of Journalism at Mérida’s Universidad de los Andes campus started in July 2016, with 25 students. Three years later, there are only eight. This essay is part of La Vida de Nos’ #SemilleroDeNarradores
Researcher Maritza Landaeta has seen how Venezuela reached this point of severe malnutrition and knows how to reverse it
How bad did Venezuela get? Among the many ways to answer that question, we can consider Fund for Peace’s Fragile State Index 2019, one of the multidisciplinary approaches that can tell the magnitude of our drama.
Venezuela needed more than four centuries to become a real country. Now, it has started dismantling again, along the petrostate and the army that used to hold it together.
I have lived for 14 years in one of the former chavista strongholds in Caracas, a low-income network of barrios with around 200,000 people, and I've seen how hardship and repression destroyed Maduro’s influence over my neighbors.
At Plaza Venezuela, the most crowded station in the Caracas Metro, three Metro lines and the people who come from an interurban train converge where all basic services are failing and a suffering mass tries to survive an everyday commute that looks like a nightmare.
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