By Adriaan van Ginkel PICTURES SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. I kindly invite you to watch this video on YouTube before going on reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnRjGYaqvIM ...
By Adriaan van Ginkel THESE LAST DAYS the tragedy of scores and scores of refugees on rickety boats and vessels coming from North Africa has been the biggest international news item. Many don...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/04/refugee-or-whatever.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN a movie fanatic. Especially the movies made before the wonders of digitalization started to enthrall audiences (destroying in their path the movie ...
By Adriaan van Ginkel IMAGINE THAT US PRESIDENT Barack Obama were just a normal Venezuelan living in Venezuela. His ID would look very much like that on your left. He would be living in so...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/04/wrong-number.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel THE FOOD SHORTAGE IN VENEZUELA has finally reached our home. Since a couple of days, I feel physically weak. Normally being of sound health, I have my wife wor...
By Adriaan van Ginkel ALTHOUGH TODAY’S URBAN CULTURE world-wide is slowly but surely pushing Christianity into a back seat – in a way saying that two thousand years predominance have ...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/04/exorcizing-country.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel NOT ONLY IN VENEZUELA BUT almost everywhere a taste for the “virtual” has developed. Virtual friends, virtual sex, virtual commerce, even the phenomenon of the e-...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/03/false-fronts.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel IN OTHER TIMES, VENEZUELA was a good place to get yourself a good steak or a prime rib from a sizzling BBQ. Not anymore. In fact, Venezuela, a country once filled ...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/03/red-meat-alert.html
TODAY'S ENTRY HAS NOTHING to do with Venezuela really. But maybe in a certain sense, it does. I am a faithful "born-again" Catholic who was raised as such, then found the whole thing ridiculous ...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/03/in-memoriam.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel YESTERDAY I HAD TO travel to Caracas. There is one main freeway entrance, the Valle-Coche, accessed from the so-called Tazón or “cup” which swoops you down in a...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/03/gathering-storm.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel I GUESS THAT since the swastika flag was struck from German embassies world-wide in 1945, not a single government has been so demonized over the last 70 years as the one...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/03/evil-empires.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel ONLY TWO ROLLS LEFT. As most of you will agree with me, finding out that only two rolls of toilet paper are smiling at you on an early Tuesday morning is a sure sign tha...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-modernism-of-toilet-paper.html
I'm busy with a little time-out. See you all next Wednesday - or earlier, if something really interesting happens here. Adriaan van Ginkel 2015
By Adriaan van Ginkel WELL, WELL, WELL. My move of last Sunday, partly intended to see how quickly the uniformed hordes toting Kalashnikovs would run up the stairs and crash through my apa...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/02/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel IT IS POSSIBLE that after publishing, this might be my last news brief for now. I hope not; my plan is to keep on writing and publishing my briefs about Venezuela, th...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/02/extra-edition-thin-red-line.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel MANY PEOPLE ABROAD have asked me about carnival in Venezuela. Is it like Rio? Simple answer: NO. Carnival in Venezuela is essentially a children’s celebration. Star...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/02/carnival-and-contradictions.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel FINALLY, AFTER MORE THAN a month waiting for announcements that would be announced announcing what was to be announced concerning the salvation of the Venezuelan ec...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/02/dollar-horror.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel FIRST OF ALL, my apologies to you all for being late with my weekly news brief. Yesterday was just one of “those days”, a day in which the daily chaos of Venezuel...
By Adriaan van Ginkel THESE DAYS I received a lot of positive remarks and compliments about my blog. Thank you all! It’s encouraging to see that my words are actually being read on seve...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/01/its-beauty.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel YONARKYS could be any hardworking Venezuelan housewife and mother. While I’m writing to you, she could be standing in a kilometrical queue in front of a supermarket an...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/01/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo_21.html
By Adriaan van Ginkel RAYMA IS THE NAME of Venezuela’s most prolific satiric artist. Her drawing pencil is merciless as well as her humor. Needless to say, good political satire always ...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/01/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo_13.html
The Hole in the Road and the Trees By Adriaan van Ginkel TELLING ABOUT VENEZUELA can be done in many ways. Tropical country with lush beaches washed by the Caribbean, Amazonian rain fo...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/01/v-behaviorurldefaultvmlo.html
Good evening from Venezuela. Since I want to reach an international public, I won't write in Dutch nor Spanish, but English. This blog will be a weekly one, in which I want to tell you things abo...
http://caracasnewsbrief.blogspot.com/2015/01/good-evening-from-venezuela.html