Cemeteries and Funeral Homes Fight COVID-19
New challenges have been added to dollarization and bureaucratic chaos for those who are trying to say goodbye to their loved ones, from fuel shortages to safety measures against the pandemic
Tag: humanitarian crisis
The Overwhelmed Reporter Syndrome
The author of this piece is the editor of a media outlet in Caracas, where services aren’t so precarious. This is her story about how long (and how much effort) it takes to do what would be regular tasks for a journalist of a normal country
Making a Buck Off the Quarantine
The weight of the black market in what’s left of the Venezuelan economy has been growing for years. But the pandemic added new trades—as honest as the circumstances allow
The Year We Changed Forever, and Some
The last semester of 2019 and the first of 2020 will be remembered for its breakdown of our political illusion and the unavoidable effects of the pandemic. What's ahead of us, then?
The Venezuelan Crisis Drives Nurses into Domestic Work
For them, day-to-day life is an exercise of resilience. Money is never enough, but they face hardships with faith, love and cooperation
The Ten Plagues of Venezuela
Poisoned waters, babies dying, ruined crops, fire from above… describing our country today is increasingly similar to the Book of Exodus
Sold Off As a Prostitute in Trinidad
A shipwreck saved her the first time, but the human trafficking ring that works from Güiria to Trinidad and Tobago came back to get her one year later
600,000 Children Left Behind
Venezuela’s collapse has forced the fragmentation of thousands of families, some of which are monoparental. When adults migrate without their kids, a whole array of abandon, mistreatment and tragedy appears.
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