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
Life
How Chavismo Uses Social Media to Justify the Detention of Human Rights Activists
For over 20 years, Chavistas have spread hate speech against opposition leaders, journalists, and human rights defenders. But now, the case of Javier Tarazona shows how they use Twitter and classic propaganda channels
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?
The Iconic Painting by Arturo Michelena We Lost (and Recovered) in the U.S.
Many of us admired the copy of ‘The Sick Child’ at the National Art Gallery of Venezuela. Axel Stein managed to reconstruct the complete history of this work, in Venezuelan hands in the U.S.
The Maduro Administration Is Spying on Everyone
A strange transparency report published by Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica shows how its Venezuelan subsidiary allowed the government to intervene over 20% of their subscribers phone lines. Here are the dirty details
FAES: Five Years Violating Human Rights and Counting
An investigation shows how FAES, the deadly National Police division, has been violating human rights with impunity in its five years of existence
Venezuelan Migrant Wave Makes Landfall in Uruguay
The Venezuelan presence in this country grows dramatically, as a another sign of a new pattern: the second migration of those who didn’t find a true home in the Andes
Powerful Mothers Fight Extrajudicial Executions in Venezuela
This grieving group of women organized to force the Venezuelan State to answer for the extrajudicial executions of their sons, husbands, and brothers—and, hopefully, put a stop to this horrific practice
From Venezuelan Violence to American Mass Shootings
My family left Venezuela for a safer place. But my years as a student in Florida, very close to a high school in Parkland, were marked by fear
Guayabo
As more and more of us experience the pain of moving abroad, no matter how hard we wanted to emigrate, we need to find a word of our own to define our feeling
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