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.
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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.
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.
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.
Let’s look carefully at the unprecedented combination of factors that keeps Venezuela in this unbearable state. Let’s try to answer the questions few dare to ask.
Discard political preconceptions. Ignore the ideological noise. Don’t rely on what you see. Here’s what you can do to figure out what happened on April 30th—and its effects—without going crazy.
To understand how a regime with such awful performance can endure the steadfast calls for its demise, one must look at its capacity to punish treason, an old and effective tool in the dark arts of dictatorship.
As Nicolás Maduro forced all TV and radio stations to broadcast his accusation that the U.S. caused the collapse of Venezuela’s power grid, the secret police was arresting Luis Carlos Diaz, the journalist and occasional Caracas Chronicles contributor, that state media is framing for “sabotage”.
Three Venezuelan scholars abroad, all of them specialists on the mechanics of Latin American authoritarian political systems, offer their different perspectives on the complexities, risks, and possibilities of the dictatorship’s disintegration.
While many demand an open attack on the Maduro regime, the Vatican is actively using its soft power toward an immediate political change. Theologist Rafael Luciani, who works directly with the Pope, explains how.
The National Assembly has just approved Juan Guaidó’s road-map for returning Venezuela to Democracy. We open the hood, take a look around, and kick the tire on Guaidó’s Transition Statute.
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