How to Teach Online with Awful Internet Access
One month into confinement, teachers jump through hoops to teach. The results match the disastrous state of Venezuelan education
What Life is Like in a Paralyzed Country
Since March 7th, almost all Venezuela, including its capital, has been trying to survive without electricity, internet and running water at the same time, and also overwhelmed by shortages, hyperinflation and crime. This is what life would be like under such conditions.
How Chavismo Lost La Vega
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.
Journal of the Blackout Craziness
As electricity comes back to most of Caracas, new testimonies emerge about what happened in a country ravaged by all kinds of problems when the power went out. This terrifying log shows the darker side of the disaster: the unraveling of the social fabric.
In Venezuelan High Schools, Preventable Diseases Can Also Kill
Imagine that many kids are so sick with tropical diseases in private academies in Miami or Toronto that they lose months of lessons. Imagine that public schools in Brooklyn or downtown Montreal are workin
A Scene of Chaos in La Vega
Yesterday’s protests were peaceful in the East of the city. In the hardscrabble West side, where I live, it was bedlam.
My Dream Job, and Why I Had to Reject It
Most Venezuelans would kill for a chance of a dollar paying job. I thought I would, too. Then I got a dream offer, did the math... and realized I couldn’t afford to take it.
After Carmina Burana: Fate of Caracas, Not That Monstrous, Not That Empty
It might be tough to think how there are still cultural events seeking to impact and transcend beyond the crisis. Is it really possible to detach ourselves from chaos? Not just possible, necessary!
Rebars and Cement Thieves Destroy What’s Left of Caracas
The Venezuelan crisis affects every sphere of everyday life and it’s not strange that, in a city where there’s less and less of everything, it’s impossible to find construction supplies. The result? Decay and vandalism.
La Nona, Like Chavismo, Is a Parasite That Killed Its Host
La Nona is a play that symbolically talks about the Argentine dictatorship, about its ambition and its desire to destroy everything. Is chavismo La Nona?
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