Edmundo González, the Venezuelan opposition candidate who has been recognized by multiple nations as the rightful winner of the country’s contested July election, hasn’t been seen in weeks. Amid a wave of arrests and violent repression against members and supporters of the opposition, González has gone into hiding. In his …
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Last month, Danny Ocean released a new EP entitled venequia. Taking its name from a slang term for what Venezuela became after the effects of populist president Hugo Chávez’s government, Ocean’s project deals head-on with Venezuela’s reality. Here, the lovelorn popetón tracks and ballads that made Ocean one of his …
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Jordan Goudreau, the former Green Beret who in 2020 failed to lead a renegade uprising in Venezuela, will face federal charges for what has come to be known as the “Bay of Piglets.” Rolling Stone has obtained an unsealed indictment, filed on July 16, which accuses him and a partner, …
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When asked about her age, Afro-Indigenous-Venezuelan producer and songwriter Gotopo doesn’t give an exact number. Instead, her answer sounds like one of the lyrics of Sacúdete, her recent debut EP. “I am older than all the trees that surround me,” she tells Rolling Stone via Zoom one afternoon from a …
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Pedro Aldana began riding motorcycles as a baby. His father would sit him on his lap and they’d cruise through the barrio of Propatria in Caracas together. When he got older, he began careening around on BMX bikes, learning to do wheelies through the chaotic and near-vertical hills of the …
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T he two Americans left late on May 2nd, 2020, well after dark had fallen on an arid beach near Castilletes, in northern Colombia. The men, both ex-Special Forces, had been waiting to pile into a flat-bottomed boat stocked with guns and ammunition and about 50 Venezuelan revolutionaries for a …
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