The revolution’s aim at a feudal state controlled by mafias grows stronger as smugglers and the black market thrive with the shortage of gasoline. Who will survive this mayhem? Ruthless mafias or scared citizens?
What does a day looking for medicine look like? It looks like an authoritarian game of ignominy and frontal abuse.
Teodoro Petkoff’s stint as a minister (1996-1998) is largely forgotten, or misremembered as a failure. In fact, his success at an impossible task—structural adjustment—was remarkable, almost unprecedented.
Maracaibo’s throbbing comercial heart looks like a post-apocalyptic zombiescape these days.
In Venezuela, gasoline is now, quite literally, priceless. Which is just as well, because there isn’t any.
Millions of Venezuelans are facing malnutrition. I know I can’t fix the entire problem. But, together with a couple dozen volunteers, we can help a few hundred at-risk young people and retirees beat acute hunger. So we do.
Colombia’s vicious ELN guerrilla kills Venezuelan soldiers...and Venezuela’s Defense Minister treats them like they’re the Godfather.
Despite the country’s huge freshwater reserves, only 18% of Venezuelans have regular access to water. Who doesn’t have trouble finding it? Mosquitoes... when the time comes to lay eggs.
Venezuela’s Western state of Zulia has a long and proud tradition of protest music: gaiteros have always raised their voices against injustice. But under growing pressure from the government, radio stations no longer dare to air it.
For kids in Venezuela’s hard-scrabble areas, it used to be the dream: get noticed by a pro scout and leave the barrio behind for the Big Leagues. But try as they might to hang on to the dream, the crisis is wringing the hope out of a new generation of peloteros.
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