Why Rising Venezuelan Nostalgia Makes It All the Harder to Imagine a Future
Looking at Old Photos May Be Soothing, But the Realities They Portray Are Almost as Confusing as the Present
A few months ago, I made a stop in Miami on my way back to Venezuela. In the last decade or so South Florida, best known as the hub of Cubans in the U.S., has become one of the preferred destinations for over 3 million Venezuelans that have left our country.
A middle-aged Cuban man, the friend of a friend of a relative, picked me up from the airport and took me to Walmart to buy some basic goods to take home with me. Unsurprisingly, the topic of Venezuela’s current situation …