On January 3rd, I woke up to what felt like an unreal moment. Maduro, who had been the second dictator during the leftist regime started by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, had been captured. Venezuelans everywhere celebrated a milestone that we weren’t sure we’d see in our lifetime. A month later, many of us sit hopingContinue reading “After the Ashes”
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The Ghosts that Brought us Together
How do keep a family together when your country is tearing you apart? In Venezuela during the Chavez-Maduro rule, increased political conflict has separated friends and families. As the economic and political situation became more tumultuous, tales of ghosts and spirits kept us together. These stories – from a child ghost at our grandparents’ homeContinue reading “The Ghosts that Brought us Together”
Nostalgia…
It’s been 9 years since I last visited Venezuela, the country where I was born and spent much of my childhood. The name used to be synonymous with beauty and oil wealth. Now, it’s an experiment in how dictatorship and corruption can cripple a country, trigger the worst humanitarian crisis in the hemisphere and divideContinue reading “Nostalgia…”
The Perfect Prose
It’s every writer’s dream: to write prose that is clear but also beautiful and captivating. Authors like Hemingway have made short, concise sentences into their own style. Others, like Saramago, have sentences that span almost a full page. Where do you add more description? Where do you keep it crisp? I like this quote fromContinue reading “The Perfect Prose”
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