Jeffery Cedeño

Author: Jeffery Cedeño

Postales de Leningrado: A Scene from New Venezuelan Film

Sep 18, 2008 | The Other Venezuela: Art and Literature, Venezuela

English + Español
The 2007 Venezuelan film “Postales de Leningrado”—postcards from Leningrad—mingles history and politics to pose a question about identity—the identity of the children of those men and women who opted to join the guerrilla struggle in Venezuela in the mid-20th century, just when the nation was trying to reestablish democracy after the Marcos Pérez Jiménez dictatorship (1952-1958). Venezuelan …

Oil and Revolution: Viewpoints Edited

Sep 17, 2008 | Oil and Revolution, Venezuela

The oil policy preva- lent in Venezuela during the 1990s, better known as the “aperture” (i.e. aperture-open- ing), called for maximizing the country’s production capacity in-country by attracting foreign oil companies to participate in the development of Venezuela’s oil infrastructure and, ultimately, to maximize production. unfortunately, the involvement of foreign oil companies came at a steep cost since the “incentives” offered led to a collapse in the country’s fiscal income which, in turn,