Caridad, Author at Havana Times

Venezuela: The Revolution of the Decrepit Old People

All of Venezuela has suffered the consequences of corruption and death of institutionalism. However, the elderly have lost the most.

In these animated gringo-Venezuelan adventures, only the coyote’s usual fall into the abyss is missing.

One can be having their morning coffee, and suddenly see how the apartment fills with chubby, tall men dressed in black with masks…

One wakes up and the first thing you do is check if the electricity is on. If not, you calculate how much time may be left until the cut-off.

Normal, we are in a dictatorship, right? That’s how dictators act, if they call for elections, they eliminate their opponents.

On Sunday the primary elections of the opposition parties in Venezuela were held. The hard work of candidate María Corina Machado bore fruit.

Not that power outages had died out, like the huge reptiles of the past. Power cuts were always sticking their heads out of our windows…

I’ve never seen her face, although she lives right on my block. I’ve seen the taxi she gets around in & the pick-up truck with tinted windows.

Teachers who protested a few days ago were accused of being traitors because they were asking for a decent wage…

A Venezuelan millionaire is locked up for a kidnapping. That might be an interesting headline or the premise for an action movie.