“When you face up to those in power you always do it from the periphery, whether you are in a neighborhood in Maracaibo, a housing estate in Valencia, a university in Caracas, or in any other part of the world.” Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno on exile and the ongoing struggle with having left.
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“My exile began long ago, before I left Venezuela.” Author Israel Centeno – former City of Asylum Pittsburgh exiled writer-in-residence – on how the extreme political polarization and violence that swept through the country in recent years has torn apart relationships and his beloved Caracas.
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In this week’s column, Israel Centeno takes a look at the political myth-making behind “Chavismo”, which he describes as “a religious movement,” fifteen years in the making, used by the government to veil the country’s deepening economic and social crisis.
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Political analyst or disruptive propagandist? A disturbing trend in newspaper editorials in Venezuela. “Analysts interpret. They don’t rebuke, punish, exclude, or explain; that is the job of a propagandist.”
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Part Three of a series on the beauty and death Egypt now faces. “I was a burden lying up on the board, and they were walking around the arena with my legs and feet.”
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Part Three of a series on the beauty and death Egypt now faces. “I was a burden lying up on the board, and they were walking around the arena with my legs and feet.”
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Israel Centeno explains how the methods employed by the detectives in Edgar Allan Poe’s novels can used to analyze the political scandals of today.
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