Héctor Sánchez. Sociologist. — Venezuela today resembles an enormous recording studio more than a sovereign republic. Much like fictional Seahaven, we live beneath a glass dome where reality has given way to a meticulously orchestrated simulacrum: a hyperreality in which the political script comes first and shapes the facts. A 1998 film, viewed in retrospect, […]
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Audio: https://clyp.it/yfbjizdt María Alejandra Díaz Marín.- The most dangerous lie is not the one people force others to believe. The most dangerous lie is the one that makes truth stop mattering. Hannah Arendt warned about that danger when she studied how modern societies accepted extreme forms of domination. Leaders did not need to convince everyone […]
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Venezuela Does Have a Solution: A Plan to Rebuild the Nation Already Exists Audio: https://clyp.it/lyeszep5 Julio A. López, editor in chief. — Roberto Smith Perera does not belong to the group of improvisers who usually emerge during times of national crisis. Smith earned a degree in Mathematics from Simón Bolívar University and a doctorate in […]
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Audio: https://clyp.it/f0iayxxc Heinrich Rahn Guardia, Logistics Coordination Advisor for Industrial Projects, Specialist in Logistics and Trade Compliance.— Venezuela’s energy sector now enters an exciting moment, especially for emblematic projects such as PAGMI (Gas Conditioning Plant in Güiria) 2018–2019 and the resurgence of Anaco as the nation’s gas capital. Based on J.P. Morgan reports, the 2026 […]
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Audio: https://clyp.it/stawzlp3 Julio A. López, Editor in Chief. — No political analyst anticipated that rumors and saber-rattling from Bolivia would disrupt the political narrative now sweeping across Latin America, with consequences that could reach far beyond Bolivian borders. Rising social and military tensions in La Paz caught much of the region’s political and intelligence community […]
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Américo Briceño Dos Santos, political scientist and university professor In a social context that continues to resign vast sectors of Venezuelan society to a relative deprivation of their material conditions, and with political violence shaping the social order—becoming somatized in bodies and undermining the collective mood—the civic spirit shifts its horizon of expectations from the […]
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Audio: https://clyp.it/enjqmvrp Dr. Román Reyes Vásquez.— For decades, the mere idea that Venezuela could seriously debate any form of political integration with the United States would have triggered a national heresy. A country shaped by the Bolivarian imagination, deeply influenced by oil nationalism and by a historical narrative of Latin American sovereignty, would hardly have […]
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Audio: https://clyp.it/v0l2yeur María Alejandra Díaz, constitutional lawyer and human rights advocate.— In light of the controversy surrounding the substantial private legal fees paid to defend Nicolás Maduro and his wife, authorized by OFAC as they face trial in the United States, one must not treat this as a minor issue. A simple legal technicality—lack of […]
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Audio: https://clyp.it/smn5bwvr Dr. Juan Barreto. — Interim president Delsy Rodríguez revives a historic claim and clashes with Guyana’s president, Irfaan Ali. How do dinosaurs enter this story? They rise from the dark depths underground, where pressure and heat cook the oily substance that powers the world, while other dark rooms simmer their own slow plots. […]
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