Baseball's Coming Home
Venezuelan baseball is promising to bring all the sports-related joys that football has deprived us from. We'll see..
Life
We Have to Talk About Pekergate
After a decision that had many folks wondering if the time of the Vinotinto had finale come, the FVF goes back to its old ways. Manager José Pekerman has left the building
A Digital Platform to Rescue Venezuela’s Lost Memory
A group of academics launched a digital platform to recover historical documents, and a first project on slavery archives
A ‘Simulation’ of Justice: How Venezuela Tries to Fool the ICC
While attempting a narrative change over high-profile extrajudicial killings, the Maduro regime uses the Attorney General’s office to slow the ICC’s work
How to Read the Watson Hotel Protests
A group of male migrants and refugees protested to avoid being removed from the hotel rooms paid for by the city. Is the local authority required to provide for all their needs? Or should they take on the responsibility to provide for themselves?
Explainer: Another UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Visits Venezuela
The new UN High Commissioner for Human RIghts came to Venezuela amid a new wave of detentions and threats to NGOs. He met the regime’s heads, NGOs and victims, and said he will continue the investigations. But he also left several unsolved questions
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
2022 Migration Year in Review
We closed 2022 with more than 7 million Venezuelan migrants and refugees scattered throughout the world, surpassing now the two greatest forced displacement flows, from Syria and Ukraine. Here is a synthesis of the critical milestones of our story of migration
Eagles in the Outfield: Where's Venezuelan Baseball in 2023?
At least in this realm, the sanctions were lifted and we even saw active MLB stars in many league games. But attendance and media attention are still a shadow of what once were
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
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