Juan Guaidó’s New Bet: To Break the Humanitarian Siege on February 23rd
Photo: Apunto En Linea retrieved “And I have something else to announce,” Juan Guaidó says from the stage, and from the inflection in his voice, you know this is really something. The plot twist is...
View ArticleVolunteering Can Make All the Difference in Humanitarian Action
Photo: El Tiempo retrieved Last Sunday, February 10th, caretaker President Juan Guaidó announced a platform for citizens to register as volunteers, to help manage humanitarian aid in four areas:...
View ArticleA Grim Reminder that We Are Far from Done
Photo: Bloomberg retrieved Bloomberg’s Andrew Rosati and Ethan Bronner bring on the depressing read of the week. In their latest text, they dig into an uncomfortable feeling that although not widely...
View ArticleNina’s Vamosbien-o-meter, Vol. II
Photo: The Daily Beast, retrieved. Thought I’d come back to spread facts and spark joy in your life. Maduro can’t catch a break and that brings us hope because we can’t help but be petty. No compassion...
View ArticleA Look into One of the Camps of the “Humanitarian Avalanche”
Photos by the author. People with walking sticks, disabilities, holding kids in their arms (who sometimes suffered respiratory problems, chickenpox, and even fractures) crowded around the tents....
View ArticleVeneLiveAid Is Happening, But What Will It Really Achieve?
Photo: Tele13, retrieved. The rapid rise of social networks has changed the way major cultural events play out. After all, its effects during Brexit or the 2016 U.S. presidential election show how...
View ArticleThe (few) Known Facts of April 30th
Cover Photo: AP retrieved At sunrise today, April 30th, Juan Guaidó and Leopoldo López released a video from Altamira, Caracas, near La Carlota airbase, with a pack of soldiers armed with machine guns,...
View Article48 Hours of Violent Protests Highlight Resilience
Photos: Gabriela Mesones Rojo While thousands gathered at Plaza Altamira to wait patiently for Guaidó, La Carlota resembled the landscape of 2017, when violent protests lashed the country for 134 days...
View ArticleChavismo Speaking of Corruption
Photo: @jguaido This Friday, I couldn’t write a briefing due to poor internet connection, and today I woke up late, so I arrived late to social networks blazing with an accusation of alleged...
View ArticleThe Uneven Trajectory of Guaidó’s Diplomacy
Photo: Diario Las Americas, retrieved. At a glance, there are three main goals Juan Guaidó’s diplomacy has been aiming to reach: keeping alliances with governments who have granted him international...
View Article2019 Gave Us a New Kind of Country
It was a year where political change looked closer than ever in two decades of chavismo. However, hope dissolved again. But this defeat was different: it left an entirely different Venezuela. One is...
View ArticleThe Takeover of the National Assembly
Photo: Iván Ernesto Reyes At 7:50 a.m. on Sunday morning, all the streets within a one-mile radius of the Legislative Palace in downtown Caracas were closed. That didn’t happen during the inaugural...
View ArticleA New Battle for the National Assembly
Photo: Cristian Hernández / AFP retrieved First of all, it’s important to point out that there’s only one parliament in Venezuela, the National Assembly (AN). The Maduro regime didn’t make another...
View ArticleGuaidó in the UK: ‘We’ll Ask for All the Help We Need’
Photo by author “Prime Minister Boris Johnson is willing to push sanctions against the Venezuelan government and move forward with the plan of designating Venezuelan gold as blood gold.” With these...
View ArticleWhy Did Chavismo Snatch Gilber Caro (Again)?
Photo: Gabriel Osorio / Univisión retrieved Gilber Caro’s attorney just announced that she was finally able to see him, that he’s fine, and feeling strong. Once again, he shows resilience after being...
View ArticleBipartisan and Trump-free
It was a very particular Saturday afternoon in Miami. Listening to música llanera and singing the “Star Spangled Banner” right before the “Gloria al Bravo Pueblo,” the Venezuelan diaspora and some...
View ArticleNothing Beats a Conspiracy Theory to Demobilize Us
Photo: Sofía Jaimes Barreto. Our conscience’s reaction is very strange; to experience that sense of need to contradict what seems excessively true. Enrique Bernardo Núñez, La galera de Tiberio “The...
View ArticleTwin Oppositions
Photo: Slate, retrieved. As his first term enters its final year, Donald Trump has survived accusations of varying legitimacy: ousting James Comey from the FBI, corruption, bribery, collusion with...
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