I once made a post about Leopoldo López, the leader of the opposition party in Venezuela who has been in jail as a political prisoner for about a year and two months. Mr. López is one of my biggest heroes. He is a man that I truly admire, not only as a leader but as […]
Passion Blog #9: “The List.” How the government takes advantage of misery.
Two weeks ago I talked in one of my passion blogs about the recent sanctions that President Obama placed on seven Venezuelan officials accused of violating human rights, and how his actions might have caused increased tensions between the U.S., Venezuela and Cuba. As of today, these sanctions remain in place and do not seem […]
Passion Blog #8: Ramblings of an Instagram User who is Tired of Seeing Pictures of Maiquetia.
One of the most recognizable “icons” of Caracas is the floor of a hallway in the main airport of the city, Maiquetia. This floor was designed by an artist named Carlos Cruz Diez, who named his piece “Chromointerferencia de colores aditivos” but everyone calls this floor “The floor of Maiquetia” for short. The floor of […]
Passion Blog #7: Stuck between Cuba and a hard place.
Some of you might have heard of the abrupt ending of the discussions between Cuba and the United States to re-establish diplomatic relations. There is no official cause as of yet as to why this happened, but many people are speculating that the rising tensions between Venezuela and the U.S. have something to do with […]
Passion Blog #6: Reminiscence and Violence
One thing about Venezuelans is that whenever we are outside our country and we recognize a Venezuelan accent in a person, we have the tendency to talk to that person or listen to their conversation. My theory is that we find it comforting to hear that accent in someone besides ourselves, because it feels like […]
Passion Blog #5- Kluiverth Roa and the American Missionaries Detained
When I decided to write this blog, I thought I would just concentrate mainly on the history of Venezuela and on the protests that happened a year ago on February of 2014. Recently though, there have been many events happening because of the economic crisis that the country is suffering, and many people are starting […]
Passion Blog #4: Leopoldo López
Yesterday,February 18th, marks a date which is extremely important to the youth of Venezuela. It was a year ago on this same day that Leopoldo Lopez, the leader of the opposition party “Popular Will” and previous mayor of the county of Chacao in Caracas, was arrested under charges of public disruption during the peaceful protests […]
Passion Blog #3- Some Current Statistics about Venezuela
On this blog post, I will like to talk a little bit about the current challenges that Venezuela faces from an economic perspective. As you guys might have noticed, oil prices right now are very low and are expected to keep dropping; while those are some good news in this country, for Venezuela… not so […]
Why is Venezuela’s division a social issue?
In my last post, I talked a little bit about the history of Venezuela prior to the presidency of Hugo Chavez and I mentioned I would continue with the history on this post, but I noticed that I did not get to explain in detail the social issues that Venezuela deals with. This issues are […]
Brief history of Venezuela and the importance of social class. Part #1
I would like to begin my passion blog about the Venezuelan protest movement by explaining a bit of history in a VERY simplified manner. I’m not exactly a huge fan of history myself, so I apologize if my first couple of posts do not seem very interesting to some of you; but I believe that […]