VENEZUELA: MEMORIAS DE UN FUTURO PERDIDO (Venezuela: Memories of a Lost Future)
Genre:
Current Issues, Biography & Memoirs, Economy & Politics
Author:
Rafael Osío Cabrices
Publisher:
Catarata
Language:
Spanish
AUTHOR BIO:
Rafael Osío Cabrices (Caracas, 1973) is an editor and journalist. He has published, among others, Apuntes bajo el aguacero: cien crónicas empantanadas (La Hoja del Norte, 2013), El horizonte encendido: viaje por la crisis de la democracia latinoamericana (Debate, 2006), and Salitre en el corazón: la vida cotidiana en la Cuba del siglo XXI (Debate, 2003)
Pages:
192
Publication:
2024
Rights available:
All except sold
DESCRIPTION:
Venezuela is like a whale stranded on a beach, surrounded by astonished onlookers. No one knows how it got there, but everyone wants to explain the causes. What happened to this country that for so long seemed to offer so much?
Rafael Osío Cabrices answers that question from three perspectives: that of the journalist who witnessed key events and had access to their protagonists; that of the migrant whose distance allows him to see his country with new eyes; and that of a member of the last generation that lived through democracy and believed in its promises of the future.
Faced with the questions raised by that anatomy lesson, Osío turns on the time machine and revisits the hurricanes that swept away the oil-fueled illusion and turned utopias upside down. After the journey, he shows us what Venezuelans expect from what lies ahead: the hope of building something new from the remnants of what never was.
The result feels like an unforgettable conversation, rich in nuance, with a well-informed friend who dismantles myths and reveals—rarely as clearly—what it feels like when History slips in through the window to upheave your world.
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCCIÓN
Una hilera de rocas para atravesar el pantano de propaganda
Lo que late bajo los reportes
Toma un vaso y sírvete
PRIMERA PARTE. ESTE NO FUE EL PRESENTEQUE ME VENDIERON
Atrapados en un videojuego
Borrador para un nostos
Dos Gobiernos, ninguna solución
Pax Bodegónica
Alcabalas en las calles, discotecas en las cárceles
De las bienvenidas con cerveza a las despedidas con lágrimas
SEGUNDA PARTE. ESE RUIDOSO MULTIVERSO QUE LLAMAMOS PASADO
La vida en el show de Truman
Caracazo
Una bomba en un centro comercial
El mundo a través de un celofán colorado
El síndrome CNN y la histeria colectiva
La explosión de la burbuja
TERCERA PARTE. EL FUTURO YA NO ES LO QUE ERA
Instrucciones para pintar un cimarrón
La curvatura del espacio y del tiempo
Los cabos sueltos del corazón
BIBLIOGRAFÍA
REVIEWS:
"Osío Cabrices portrays Venezuela in a human essay that goes beyond academic standards" — El Carabobeño “Once you pass the first lines it’s no longer possible to stop or take a step back. Venezuela: Memories of a Lost Future … has something of a roller-coaster. Moments of narrative vertigo alternate with relief, only to accelerate again… The book manages to be both close and distant at the same time. In that lies its peculiar magnetism. There is no page of Venezuela … that is not under the assault of an observer questioning himself.” — El Nacional (Papel Literario) “The book explains the rise of Chavismo and the continuation established by Nicolás Maduro. It is neither a simple chronicle nor academic analysis alone, but a crude and direct narrative that refuses excuses or false justifica...
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