A Chavismo of Nightmares
In Germany in the 1930s, a journalist took to collecting and curating people’s nightmares. I reflect on the terrible relevance that project has for Venezuelans today.
Manuel Llorens, is a psychologist and researcher, and an authentic Venezuelan perro verde as well.
In Germany in the 1930s, a journalist took to collecting and curating people’s nightmares. I reflect on the terrible relevance that project has for Venezuelans today.
As Delcy Rodríguez humiliates recently released political prisoners by carefully erasing their experiences, we meditate on the perverts’ fraught relationship with the truth.
National Assembly member Gilber Caro is the face of triumph over extraordinary obstacles. He is also the face of Maduro's unspeakable cruelty. He could be dead soon if he doesn't get help.
Enough tut-tutting the youngsters on the street taking big risks for ‘La Resistencia.’ The truth is, without their energy and commitment, we have no movement.
We are suffering from our delusions of grandeur, the “magical state”, the winner takes all mentality. And, all around, the stench is of ever increasing destruction, of senseless death.
The government's gone all out to keep any sign of the crisis off of Venezuela's broadcast media. They weren't counting on Venezuela's brave fútbolistas.
Awareness of vulnerability might be a key factor in opening space for the development of non-military solutions, “just as denial of this vulnerability through a fantasy of mastery can fuel the instruments of war."
As massacres become a weekly event in Venezuela, mass graves are crafting a new abnormal normality, rendering empathy impossible and dehumanizing us little by little.
It’s hard to see the upside of being put under house arrest for political reasons. Sure, you get a cop outside your door. As Marcelo Crovato recently found out, that's not that useful a perk.
The events of 1989 carry traces of social trauma: it transcends history and lives ambivalently as a portmanteau fantasy, carrying both fears and desires.
We’ve been able to hang on for 19 years in one of the craziest media landscapes in the world. Now, the difficulty level was raised abruptly with the global pandemic. We’ve seen different media outlets in Venezuela (and abroad) cutting personnel to avoid closing shop. This is something we’re looking to avoid at all costs, and it seems we will. But your collaboration goes a long way in helping us weather the storm.
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