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Venezuelan Elections: the baker's "count"

“This is a dictatorship, brother", continues the man. “I think that for being like this talking, if a military man passes by, if he wants, he will take me prisoner. That's why I had to change, if not, this is a wreck... see this little bottle, It cost me 80 Bolivars, Not long cost only 5 Bolivars. "

byContributors

9 December, 2015

Medanos de Coro, beaches without the sea

Next to the place where tourists bathe their dreams, nature meets the winds of the sea to form one of the most absurd orographies of Venezuela. It is a tongue of sand that does not reach the coast, that runs out of beaches, a miniature desert, where coconut trees are supposed to rule.

byDaniel Landa

17 March, 2014

The round beaches of Morrocoy

In the collective imagination, the Caribbean is presented as a turquoise blue or emerald green vacation, because the stillness of the sea tends to be associated with the brilliance of precious stones. The Morrocoy keys are bathed rather in green, a glowing green, hypnotic, that hopelessly attracts tourists.

byDaniel Landa

17 February, 2014

Salto Angel, Venezuela: King of heaven and the quest for gold

The 9 October 1937 la avioneta de James Crawford Angel -Jimmy Angel- touched the top of Auyan-tepui. It was the first time a human being trampled on Auyán. The landing gear broke in so daring maneuver and the aircraft was unfit to take off. There was no alternative, had to go on foot. Almost half a month took the browser Jimmy Angel and his fellow expedition to find the only way down and down from the top of Auyan-tepui to camp Uruyén, where he hoped Felix Cardona. Only had food for a week. But this story begins a few years ago ...

byContributors

31 March, 2011

Naples 1944: Magistral chronicle of a surreal city	9,75/10
"The dead and the journalist": "inevitable" death	9,75/10
"The innocent anthropologist": Africa, heartily	9,75/10
Tierra de Brujas: When it doesn't rain do the blue veins dry up??	9,70/10
Of the ruins of the empires: Asia's adjustment with European colonialism	9,45/10
“A possible life”: The scar that leaves the memory	9,40/10
"Quijote in the Congo": They were not giants, It was a river	9,25/10
"Pilgrims of beauty": Italy and Greece Bacanal	9,20/10
"Travel with Charley": Raw portrait of the US 60	9,05/10
Winter notes on summer impressions: Dostoevsky in front of the mirror	8,90/10
The city of God: the guts of Rome	8,75/10
On the road: the “American Dream” of the underworld	8,60/10
My trip to Africa: Churchill takes his rifle	7,50/10
"Mexico. Memories of a traveler ": The cursed book that clears the country	6,25/10
“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses	5,50/10