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  • An open letter to Americans from a Venezuelan journalist

    An open letter to Americans from a Venezuelan journalist

    This essay is part one of a series seeking to deconstruct Venezuela’s complex history after Trump’s removal of Maduro.

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  • Short story: ‘Surrogate’

    Short story: ‘Surrogate’

    “Vance stares at himself in the mirror, looking at a youthful stranger. A stranger whose pain is not reflected by the searing scars on his body, but by the engulfing emptiness in his eyes.”

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  • ‘Mano, Tengo Fe’: The Phrase Uniting Venezuelans in Cautious Optimism

    ‘Mano, Tengo Fe’: The Phrase Uniting Venezuelans in Cautious Optimism

    With the way we celebrated, you’d think we won the World Cup. The surge of emotion that electrified the New York City sports bar was as much happiness as it was relief.

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