Venezuela
Lorena Alvarado explores memory in Lost Chapters
August 29, 2025Lost Chapters (or Los capítulos perdidos) is a quiet and tender documentary/fiction hybrid set in Caracas, Venezuela. The film follows Ena, who is searching for “forgotten writer” Rafael Bolívar Coronado across the city. Lost Chapters will be premiering at the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival on September 5. I had the wonderful opportunity to sit down with director Lorena Alvarado to learn more. This interview has been condensed for concision and clarity. Tell me about how your life influenced the film. “I considered it sort of an auto-fiction film so it’s a mix of real things of my life…
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Two films framing Venezuelans
October 18, 2023Editor's note: A previous version of this piece misspelled "Rebeca Huntt" as "Rebecca Huntt." It has now been fixed. Content warning: brief mention of enslavement. Latinx Heritage Month may be coming to an end, but that’s no reason to stop…
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Food for Thought: Hallacas tell a story of Venezuela
November 30, 2022Christmas smells like banana leaves. That’s because it’s a key ingredient in my family’s holiday meals, frequently consisting of pan de jamón, panettone, and hallacas. Every hallaca is different depending on the family who makes it. They primarily consist of…
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Canada can and should better support Venezuelans
February 8, 2019The worst humanitarian and economic crisis in the history of Latin America is currently unfolding in Venezuela. Much of the population lacks access to food or medicine, poverty is reaching all-time highs, and infant mortality is on the rise. Tensions…
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World News Beat
June 1, 2018Venezuelan president wins dubious second term Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has won a second term in office, in an election that involved an opposition boycott and widespread claims of electoral fraud. The election’s result was immediately rejected by the opposition,…
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World News Beat
May 6, 2017FRANCE – French elections move on to the second round The first round of votes in the French presidential election were held on April 23. As no candidate won the majority of the vote, the two top candidates will face…
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