Venezuelan comedian José Rafael Guzmán travels across two countries and 3,000 kilometers in the surprisingly poignant Caminantes, a hybrid of comedy and journalism on YouTube that reveals new interesting trends in Venezuelan mass culture.
The National Assembly keeps working on letting humanitarian aid enter the country. Two substitute deputies from Amazonas were sworn in. Guaidó calls, once again, on Venezuelan soldiers to stand by the people and the Constitution. Almagro is fully determined to help Venezuela.
A veteran Venezuelan TV actor in Miami found a second career as the favorite YouTuber of the most vehement opposition to Maduro. But what he does, looks very similar to his enemies' techniques. It’s almost as funny as Keegan-Michael Key’s famous character.
A huge benefit concert in Cucuta will serve as a prelude to push forward the humanitarian aid and to create more global awareness on the Venezuelan crisis. But can it bring more public attention to our crisis or simply attract those convinced?
We're all waiting to see how the current stalemate in Venezuela will be resolved, but free and democratic elections should be the outcome of the crisis, and that means including around 3 million Venezuelans of the diaspora, even if they have no regular status.
“All the necessary sacrifices to secure Venezuela’s freedom,” said Guaido. Trump backed him up in a speech in Florida. Chavismo exudes tension in every speech and every action. EU lawmakers that were expelled from Venezuela on Saturday promised to go to Cucuta on February 23rd.
Rescate Venezuela was the NGO that started the engines for the entry of the humanitarian aid. This Sunday, February 17th, the humanitarian camps exercise officially began. This is the chronicle of one of them in Macarao, Caracas.
With a Live Aid concert scheduled for Friday 22nd and volunteers rallying to the call for help, February 23rd is shaping up to be a showdown between the democratic forces and the dictatorship, though it’s not an endgame in itself.
While some professional pessimists complain about the speed of this transition (because toppling a dictatorship must take a couple of magic tricks,) the dictatorship keeps shrinking its action range under international pressure.
Over half a million Venezuelans want to help. A delegation from the EU Parliament was expelled from the country directly from Maiquetía Airport, on government’s orders. Russian bank Gazprombank froze PDVSA’s accounts. U.S. military planes carrying medical and nutritional supplies landed this weekend in Cúcuta.
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