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Caracas barrio of Antímano. ©Rodrigo Romero People hurriedly walking out of the Mamera Metro station in western Caracas this past Sunday, were in for a surprise. Their bewildered faces gave no clue if the surprise was good or bad, they looked merely confused. An old...
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s recent call for the creation of a National Constituent Assembly has raised even more questions in Venezuela’a already agitated political landscape. While the main government figures portray it as the deepening of the revolutionary...
The recent protests organized by the Venezuelan opposition have generated an unusual scenario in the lower income areas of Caracas. The so-called “Mother of all Marches” on April 19 brought with it a restless night of protests and riots in several areas of Caracas’s...
Venezuela is one of the most violent countries in the world, with a homicide rate of at leaset 59 for every 100,000 people. In an attempt to stop the dramatic increase in crime and violence, in July 2015 the Maduro government launched Operación Liberación del Pueblo...
It doesn’t feel like Christmas in Antímano, the neighborhood where I live. Inflation, crime and violence, and the difficulty accessing basic goods and services have produced widespread suffering which popular sectors live with stoic resignation during a season that...
Humberto López is a well-known figure in Caracas, especially around downtown. He drives around in a military jeep vehicle dressed up as the famous Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara, always with a big cigar in hand. He strikes a peculiar figure that gets greetings and...
Caracas barrio of Antímano (photo taken from Caracasshots.blogspot.com) [Yesman Utrera is Venezuela´s leading fixer and translator, facilitating the visits of many international journalists. He is also an accomplished journalist in his own right. When we cross paths...