How the Olympics Helped Me Reconnect with Venezuela
These games and the performance of our athletes are doing something strange to migrants like me: making us feel proud of the country that we felt had betrayed us
Tag: Sports
Our New Gold Standard
A Queen, A 36-year-old BMX rider, a weight lifter from the Cota 905, and a self-taught phys ed teacher from rural town Barlovento are just some of the characters leading an unlikely historic generation of Venezuelan athletes
Julio Mayora and Another Victory for Chavismo
A Venezuelan weightlifter winning silver in Tokyo is the embodiment of the hardships to train, the vulnerability of the poor to the regime’s manipulation, and the lack of empathy in our public opinion
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