Archive for the 'Venezuela' Category



Foreign Correspondents Replaced By Digital DJ’s


h1 Posted 1 year, 2 months ago in the early afternoon by oso

It’s hard to believe that it has already been five months since I was sitting in the café courtyard of the Galería de Arte Nacional in Caracas and writing a blog post that I intended to publish that same afternoon. Like so many nearly finished blog posts, however, I never did publish it and it [...]

Venezuela: On Subterranean Transportation


h1 Posted 1 year, 7 months ago just before lunchtime by oso

Subways, I love them. The door to the carriage opens, it closes, and your two or five or 15 minutes of silent intimacy with people you’ve never met begins. Like unacquainted sardines. Like a colony of seals piled upon each other in stoic orgy.

We’re rich, we’re poor; black and white; Chavistas and Chavez-haters; young and [...]