Tag: Venezuela

At the dawn of the second Trump administration this year, the nation witnessed large-scale ICE operations across the country in high immigrant populations, resulting in more than 527,000 deportations and 1.6 million people voluntarily self-deporting.  Although the...
My name is Chirley López. I am a 40-year-old immigrant studying in the English for Speakers of Other Languages program at Wolfson Campus.  I immigrated from San Cristóbal, Venezuela in January fleeing the political instability in my...

This New World School Of The Arts Alumna Has A Film Streaming On Apple TV+

When Maria Corina Ramirez graduated from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School, she faced an uncertain future.  The undocumented teenager from Venezuela could not...

From Venezuela To The U.S.—The Culture Shock I Face During The Holidays

December. It’s that time of the year again.  From a very young age, I always thought of December as one of the most joyful and...

Class Aims To Help Venezuelan Women Hone Their Entrepreneurial Spirit

For six months, Yelka Mikolji kept her idea of protecting and identifying endangered species through facial recognition technology a secret.  It wasn’t until several of...

Trump’s Sanctions Aren’t Helping Venezuela

The Donald J. Trump administration has been imposing sanctions on Venezuela since 2017. The main argument in favor of this is that the first...

Hermione’s Army To Host House of Horrors

Hermione's Army will be hosting a House of Horrors based on real-life events at InterAmerican Campus, 627 S.W. 27th Ave., Room 6018 on October...

My Life As A MUNer

If you are a member of Model United Nations (MUN), or MUNer, you know these three words equate to passing the math test you...

Venezuela Needs Educated Leaders

Eighteen years ago Hugo Chavez Frias fooled Venezuelans. He promised a change from the terrible government in charge at the time, promised food for...

Student Uses Karate To Shape His Life

As a shy six-year-old, David Bavaresco left his first karate class in Venezuela in tears. His grandfather, Eduardo Bavaresco, predicted that karate wouldn’t be...

The Current Turmoil In Venezuela

I proceed to inform and convey, with much anguish and agony, the desperation divulged in this work. What will be recounted are the words...

Latina Comedian Joanna Hausmann Of FLAMA Visits MDC

On April 6, Joanna Hausmann, well known for her “Joanna Rants” videos on the FLAMA YouTube channel (Univision’s bilingual digital platform), paid a visit...

More Reasons For Venezuelans To Vote

Venezuela has a unicameral congress in which last month, 112 opposition representatives—including the first transgender person in Latin America to hold public office—were sworn...