For the girls and young women who compete in Venezuela’s beauty pageants — or those who aspire to — beauty is more than skin deep. Venezuela may be thought of as one of the most beautiful countries in the world when it comes to producing pageant queens. Six Miss Worlds,…
Considered a rising star in the world of baseball and one of the Seattle Mariners’ highest-ranked pitching prospects, Victor Sanchez is reportedly clinging to life after being struck by a boat while swimming on Friday. Sanchez, 20, was struck by a watercraft while swimming at a beach in his home…
Social media is often regarded as a powerful tool for ordinary people to disseminate information, practice freedom of expression, and promote democracy throughout the world. However, sometimes that sentiment simply isn’t true. Nowhere was that better demonstrated in recent memory than in Venezuela. Protests organized by right-wing groups and activists…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is wrapping up his week-long tour of Asia and Russia — and is not coming back to Caracas empty-handed. According to Bloomberg, Maduro embarked on his trip rather quickly in the hopes of convincing petroleum-producing countries such as Russia and Saudi Arabia to stabilize oil prices…
A Venezuelan ice cream shop know for its bizarre flavors, from trout to “mushroom in wine sauce,” has shut down this week due to a “milk shortage.” Heladeria Coromoto, which sells a Guinness World Record-breaking 863 flavors of ice cream in Merida, a college town in the Andes, told customers…
A Venezuelan trans woman earned the title of Miss International Queen this week in Thailand, at a pageant which bills itself as the world’s largest beauty pageant for transgender candidates.Isabella Santiago, 22, surpassed 21 contestants from 18 different countries to win the Miss International Queen pageant on Nov. 7 in…
Following the 2013 death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, the Latin American country has been rocked by conflict between right-wing politicians and the revolutionary activists and workers who support Chavez’s lefist Bolivarian movement. To further their cause, some of these activists have taken to the nation’s streets and neighborhoods to…
The TNT series Legends has barely made a blip in the extensive TV lineup released this year by United States television networks, where the satellite telecommunications industry which controls TV broadcasting brings about $6 billion in revenue every year. But the show has plenty of critics in Venezuela. Venezuelan officials…