The Venezuelan artist, recently awarded the Pérez Museum Miami’s annual prize, reflects in this conversation on categories of insanity and the richness of marginalized voices, shaped by their distinct ways of seeing reality
If you’re interested in conveying the climate of risk and uncertainty Venezuela navigates, rather than reinforcing specific agendas, this is how your writing should look
Ninety years ago, the death of the man who ruled Venezuela for nearly three decades ushered in a new country. Let’s take a look into the mirror of history
Trump and Stephen Miller pushed a new, disputed reading of Venezuelan oil history. Rubio kept to the national-security frame.
“The most important threat in the region is these criminal terrorist groups. This is the threat Colombia faces, the threat the entire hemisphere faces, and it is the root of the violence in Mexico, Ecuador, across all of Central America—throughout all these countries. It is the region’s primary threat. We therefore have governments that cooperate with our efforts against this threat: Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic. Many cooperate.
We continue to have very good relations with Colombia’s security teams. I understand that Colombia’s president is an unusual person, but beyond that, at the institutional level, we have very good relations. And with Mexico as well. The Mexican government is doing more right now on security than at any point in its history. There is still much to be done, but we have cooperation.
When it comes to Venezuela, we do not have that. We have a regime that not only does not cooperate with the United States, but openly cooperates with criminal elements.”
This regime-change push looks nothing like the effort led by Guaidó and Leopoldo. That experience helps to explain Trump today
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Why would the US want to buy Venezuelan oil? Why would Venezuela want to sell to its worst enemy? Francisco Monaldi makes it simple for those who are still wondering
Venezuelan lawyer and migration advisor Gabriel Cardozo Acosta unpacks the nuances surrounding legal changes and cases of xenophobia
The communist who posed as a centrist lost Chile’s presidential election in a landslide for several reasons. One of them was telling a lie about Maria Corina Machado
After international airlines pulled out, travelers still hoping to get home face expensive land and air detours
Amid military tensions, a soaring dollar and other daily pressures, cultural events offer some emotional release, but few can afford them
We shuffle off the gray areas to discuss the best outcomes for Maduro and Machado looking at the cards laid on the table
