Our sick, sick Health Minister
Who bears responsablity for Venezuela's catastrophically failing health sector? "Capitalism!" says our disturbed new Health Minister
In Defense of our Psychiatric Wards
Venezuela es un manicomio. But, as I found out doing my rotation at Merida’s mental hospital, some of the manicomios are almost ok.
National Assembly follows through on Political Trial
We watched today's AN session, which was surprisingly riveting, and here are the highlights.
How Hampa is Destroying 70 Years of Venezuelan Science
If only the malandros who keep going back to UCV's Instituto de Medicina Tropical to pick at the bones of a broken institutions knew Dr. Félix Pifano, and the way this institute transformed Venezuela.
A Journey To Mukumbarí
The brand new Mérida cable car is both a sample of what Venezuela could be, and the reasons why it’s not: A beautiful place doomed by economic nonsense.
María's Burden
María is sick of the crisis. Literally. Neurologically.
A Dictatorship but not really
What kind of political leadership declares the country’s constitution order has been broken just to take it back a week after?
Ramón and the Pipes
My firsthand story of the titantic struggle pitting plumbing vs. surgery at Merida's University Hospital, and the patients caught in the middle.
How Mérida became Venezuela
Every merideño grew up knowing there was something special about this place, "a university with a city inside." Mérida isn't like Venezuela. Or it never had been. It sure wasn't supposed to be. Now it is.
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