Salsa for My Frozen Heart
Living in Montreal, I don’t let go of the music that other immigrants like me created in New York City to fend off the cold during winter.
One Thousand, Ten Thousand, Fifty Thousand Dead
Twenty years ago, the Northern Venezuelan coast suffered one of the worst disasters in the country’s history. But we’ll never know how many people we lost.
Of Course Bolivia Is Not Venezuela
Evo Morales, a close ally of Chávez and Maduro, resigned on November 10th, after the OAS issued a report invalidating the election he claimed he had won. That doesn’t mean we should draw false equivalences.
Brazil, the Other Border
The sixth country in South America taking in Venezuelans is a lot more organized for this emergency. But most of these immigrants are in passing, and 171 thousand dilute among 210 million inhabitants.
Trouble in the Lima Group
In 2017, 12 countries of the Americas forged an alliance to help restore democracy in Venezuela. Now, the more influential members of the club face challenges that could alter their stance towards our country.
‘When Rebuilding, Remember the Environment’
Venezuelans joined in on the anguish for the Amazon rainforest fires in Brazil, while their own surroundings are in awful shape. Alejandro Luy sums up the environmental situation in Venezuela.
“Our Conflict Comes From Not Having a Civilized, Modern Life.”
Political scientist Guillermo Aveledo Coll sees a society more open to negotiation and an opportunity in Barbados, than the groups fighting to rule over it
The First Band of the Venezuelan Diaspora
The rest of the world discovered Los Amigos Invisibles thanks to David Byrne, and they’ve never stopped touring with their unique mix of acid jazz and Caracas flavor.
Long Live the King of Color
Caracas-born Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the most important visual artists of the 20th century, is dead. He turned science into art, and art into a game we all could take part of.
An Unraveling Nation-State
Venezuela needed more than four centuries to become a real country. Now, it has started dismantling again, along the petrostate and the army that used to hold it together.
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