News from Venezuela: Don’t be distracted

Politics, Venezuela

All major international news outlets reported on Venezuela’s latest events yesterday. CNN, NYTimes, The Guardian, and local news outlets all reported about a helicopter flying over Caracas in the evening news. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/world/americas/venezuela-supreme-court-helicopter.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/27/americas/venezuela-supreme-court-helicopter-grenade-attack/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/28/venezuela-supreme-court-grenade-police-helicopter The facts: Oscar Perez, a handsome crime unit investigator who has taken baby steps into film production, flew a police helicopter…

Dignity and Hope for Venezuela

Dreams and Success, Immigration, Venezuela2 Comments

It started with incendiary rhetoric, with a change of patriotic symbols, with arming the masses to defend the revolution, with the dogmatization of education … It became a full blown dictatorship with the censorship of media, the imprisonment of opposition leaders, and the torture and killing of thousands of young protesters.
Today, I celebrate hope