Beggars Outside Venezuelan Supermarkets Dare to be Choosers
What happens when you are bad at saying no and there’s too many people struggling that need you to say yes. In the land of the hungry, he who can afford groceries is king.
What happens when you are bad at saying no and there’s too many people struggling that need you to say yes. In the land of the hungry, he who can afford groceries is king.
Every Venezuelan remembers his burial. Now, five years later, Chavismo has proven it can survive without its founder despite everyone’s predictions.
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.
Dollarization is sexy, but the argument for why we need it is weak.
Alba Cecilia Pereira has been living in Colombia since 2004. She founded Entre2Tierras, to help Venezuelan immigrants get jobs, housing, medicine and food when they get there.
PAHO alerts on the resurgence of measles in the Americas, Venezuela leads the way with over 800 cases and becomes a public health threat for the whole region.
Your daily briefing for Monday, March 12, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.
The irony is embarrassing: in a family of professional political commentators and rabid whiskey-chugging, fortune-telling pundits, it was my Prados-del-Este hypochondriac grandmama who was the most foreboding.
People who have been trading cryptocurrencies for a while, let’s say the pros sometimes referred to as “crypto bros”, are staying as far as they can from the petro. One of them explains the many reasons why.
We’ve been able to hang on for 21 years in one of the craziest media landscapes in the world. We’ve seen different media outlets in Venezuela (and abroad) closing shop, something we’re looking to avoid at all costs. Your collaboration goes a long way in helping us weather the storm.
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