Discovering Gego
As a Venezuelan growing up abroad, seeing for the first time the work of this magnificent artist, at a Mexican museum, made me realize the distance my generation has with many masterworks of my country’s culture
Empty Suitcases and Traveling Hallacas
Pedro spoke to people from North America to Australia, to see how they experience the complexities of the holidays that in many ways define what means to be Venezuelan
Saving Venezuelan Pop Classics
Musician and producer Cheo Pardo has a mission: re-recording and re-releasing the music we lost because of the demise of the Venezuelan music business
The Deported: Unwelcome in the U.S. and Latin America
Pedro spoke to Venezuelan migrants in Mexican shelters about the Biden administration orders of automatic deportations and to the people who try to manage the surge
The First Animated Venezuelan-American Family on American TV
Caraqueña comedian Joanna Hausmann, head writer and co-producer of the animated series Hamster and Gretel, tells the story of the show that premieres on August 12th on Disney Channel
Full Send: Venezuelan University Joins Emerging Esports Scene
While some Russian investors are forming a team in El Yaque, one of Venezuela’s main universities just started to train professional gamers. What’s going on?
Ukraine and the Illusion of Post-History
Many people were surprised by a new war in Europe. But for my generation, the famous “end of history” never happened. Especially if you are from Venezuela
The Sloppy History of the Recall Referendum in Venezuela
Now that a part of the opposition is attempting a doomed to fail recall referendum to remove Maduro from the presidency, we look at the history of how chavismo weaponized a tool they included in the Constitution that was supposed to expand democratic rights
Into the Universe of Choro 2021
Venezuelan writer and filmmaker Carl Zitelmann launched a video game, about a criollo post apocalyptic landscape. We played it and this is how it went
This Is How Democracies Die in the 21st Century
The death of Venezuelan democracy seems to be replicating in many other countries. How are democracies dying today? A new book by María Puerta Riera explains the diverse and incremental ways this is happening
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