Just four days before the event was to take place, on March 22 the Inter-American Development Bank canceled its annual meeting to be held in Chengdu because China refused to grant a visa to Guaidó’s appointee. But this is an opportunity to Guaidó to build bridges with Beijing.
The Red Cross will distribute humanitarian aid to Venezuelans in need. Chavismo will bring medical supplies from China and called it “an exercise of sovereignty and independence”. Diosdado confused everyone when he called military training and exercises a “battle for peace”. On Friday night, the third nationwide blackout in a month left 21 states in the dark.
This documentary by Venezuelan filmmaker Tuki Jencquel, filmed at Caracas with no financial support from the state and therefore complete independence, starts its international film festival round. Its focus: our people’s resilience in an overwhelming routine.
Amid the overwhelming effects of two nationwide blackouts in the same month, the International Red Cross announces that it will start to distribute humanitarian aid in the country, along with the Catholic Church. Both the regime and Guaidó’s camp will move the struggle back to the main subject of our health crisis.
In this essay, a veteran of the American Left traces the evolution of the mind frame among activists that links a leftist ruling party with the people, melting both categories into one single blind spot. This is how the Left became unable to see a dictatorship in the Maduro regime.
To understand how a regime with such awful performance can endure the steadfast calls for its demise, one must look at its capacity to punish treason, an old and effective tool in the dark arts of dictatorship.
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.
I was supposed to go back to Ecuador. But instead of going to the airport and saying goodbye—for now—to Venezuela, I ended up in the midst of the consequences of the second national blackout in 17 days.
Photo by Gabriela Mesones Rojo Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Paul Simon 20 days ago, Venezuela spent four and a half...
On March 26th, 207 years ago, an earthquake devastated Caracas and other cities in that young Venezuela that was trying to be a republic. The event was decisive to the collapse of the revolutionary regime.
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