LatinaLista — News has been trickling out of Venezuela of the spiraling conditions in the country. From the unrest in the streets where military police are reported to be shooting indiscriminately into crowds of students to the closure of…
By Victoria McKenzie Colombia Reports Colombia’s Press Association is lending 52 tons of paper to three national Venezuelan newspapers on the verge of shutting down due to insufficient supplies to non state-owned dailies. Nora Sanin, executive director of Colombian…
By Larry Birns and Lauren Foiles Council on Hemispheric Affairs The general position of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) on the ongoing developments in Venezuela is that Washington has a misguided policy toward the South American country. Moreover,…
By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim VenezuelaAnalysis.com MERIDA – Venezuelan researchers are studying ways to use bamboo to provide cheap, environmentally friendly housing. With funding from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, students and educators at Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar University (USB)…
By Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista CARACAS — For Venezuelans, going to the movies is now as much a source of national pride as international Venezuelan beauty queens or baseball. The reason is because of the film Azul y no Tan…
By Charles Parkinson InSight Crime A former top anti-drugs official in Venezuela has lambasted corruption in the country and branded it the “number one” drug trafficking nation in Latin America, highlighting how deeply the connections between organized crime and…
La Voz Latina A full month has passed since the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and a remarkable truth has emerged: the man remains as polarizing in his tomb as he was in life. Two recent commentaries illustrate…
LatinaLista — Though the former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, enjoyed high approval ratings before his recent death, many Venezuelans feel he left the country in worst shape than ever, according to a new Gallup Poll. His legacy and…
By Angela Millan Epstein CTLatinoNews.com Rafael Reif speaks slowly with the clarity of an engineer’s mind and the matter of fact attitude of a person whose life and experiences have led him to hold one of the most important…
LatinaLista — While the world has focused on Mexico’s crime violence, another country has largely escaped global scrutiny though its crime is reported to be worse than that of Mexico in many respects. The country is Venezuela. In an…
LatinaLista — Mexico has its San Malverde, the patron saint of drug traffickers and criminals. Though the idea of paying homage to a guy that is the patron saint of a gang who show no mercy to their victims…
(The following is written by a regular contributor to Latina Lista’s Linking Latinas section.) by Jennifer Barreto-Leyva Venezuelans are about to say good-bye for good to democracy and freedom of speech. The only independent TV Station is about to…
by Jennifer Barreto-Leyva LatinaLista VENEZUELA: Venezuela, the land well known as the territory where beautiful women are born, the land of oil — and the land of political controversy for the last ten years. This is the most ridiculously…
LatinaLista In the first of weekly analysis of what is happening on our side of the world, in an effort to keep readers informed, Latina Lista, along with special contributors from North, Central and South America, will strive to…
