Book Club: Tres generaciones, una revolución
Tengo una teoría acerca de “Patria o Muerte,” la novela de Alberto Barrera Tyszka que acabamos de terminar de leer: en el fondo, es una meditación acerca del...
In Casey You Missed It
Nicholas Casey's chronicle of his first month in Venezuela as a New York Times correspondent is pretty intense.
Journey Into the Dark Heart of El Sistema
So what were the chances that an organization named El Sistema would turn out to have some creepy, cultish undertones? Fairly high, huh?
Revisiting the Morality of Debt
As mass-scale hunger begins to stalk the Venezuelan public sphere, the moral dimension of lending to a crazy regime comes into sharper and sharper focus.
It Sounds So Simple When Bello Says It
The Economist’s Bello column (on Latin America) this week pivots from hair-raising oumaigá to disarming simplicity in a few paragraphs, ending with this: Most in the opposition and...
How Cadivi Stole Christmas
Add this one to the very long list of things we can blame Cadivi for: my seven year old son finding out who really buys Baby Jesus’s presents.
Desperately Seeking Mishima as the Cheap Dollars Dry Up
For book lovers like me, Cadivi is like a completely arbitrary censor with unchecked power to decide which books will be dirt cheap, which will be mad expensive, and which just won't be available at all.
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