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Denial: The Best Venezuelan Way to Deal with Failure
At this stage, it would be ludicrous to expect the dictatorship recognizing its massive failure with the future it promised. Chavismo turned the page from the script of a country destined to materialize the 21st century socialism, politically leading the south and conquering space with satellites, to one that deals with the electrical crisis by changing light bulbs. Government leaders disavow not only factic reality, but even mathematics, happily stating that their economic supervision has “reduced prices 130%.”
¿Por qué viniste a verme?: precariedad y subjetividad
Una consultante en psicoterapia que vive en el exterior me cuenta que la semana la pasó alterada con la noticia de un militar venezolano arrestado que aparentemente fue torturado hasta causarle el desprendimiento de un testículo, además de las imágenes y testimonios...
Political Prisoner Gilber Caro Resists From Jail
Political Prisoner Gilber Caro Resists From Jail
On Educated Psychiatrists, Poetry and Genocide
On Educated Psychiatrists, Poetry and Genocide
Las fantasías revolucionarias y el hambre
Las revoluciones utópicas del siglo XX y la lamentable versión reencauchada que hemos padecido en Venezuela en el siglo XXI tienen una dimensión tragicómica desconcertante. Las anécdotas que sobreviven son hilarantes a la distancia y devastadoras en tiempo real. Soy...
A Chavismo of Nightmares
I find it increasingly hard to chronicle what’s going on in Venezuela. Images of empty grocery aisles, pictures of families separating at the airport, starving children, mutilated bodies left in garbage dumps, fear and rage and despair all pile up in my mind making a...
Delcy’s Christmas Wishes
Delcy Rodríguez decided to give us all a Christmas message as presiding member of the Commission for Truth, Justice, Peace and Public Tranquility. The announcer on the state channel reported that Delcy had invited “a group of thirteen out of the almost 80 prisoners...
Niños con experiencia de calle y la política en Venezuela
1. El Eterno Retorno de los “niños de la calle” La ola de protestas de este año trajo, entre otras cosas, una explosión de muestras de cultura juvenil. Jóvenes de muy distintas edades participaron de muy diversas maneras generando cruces inesperados de creatividad y...
Gilber Caro’s Hunger
Gilber Caro has sewn his lips shut. Imprisoned since January in a 2×3 meter cell, he can barely lie down. Isolated, he has read the books they allow him over and over again. He was allowed to see sunlight one hour per day, but this “privilege” was suspended a few...
Reflections on Our Caribbean Punk Rock Protest Chamos
“Do not go gently into that good night rage, rage against the dying of the light” Dylan Thomas Photo credit: Leo Álvarez (@oelzer) I walked down the Francisco de Miranda avenue last Thursday; everything was shut down, not a single car on the street and small groups of...