venezuelan, associate ed @TheAtlantic
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"This is Italy's Apollo project"
For longer than anyone can remember, Italian governments have promised a bridge to Sicily and failed to build it. This story is about the beguilement of great infrastructure--and about power as an optical illusion:
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My family members have lost property, but not lives. But like many other Venezuelans, I am riveted by the pictures of endless rubble, of buildings whose facades have collapsed, displaying the rooms inside like dioramas of life before disaster
@giselasalimp
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Venezuela’s government has managed to make the consequences of two powerful earthquakes even worse, @giselasalimp writes: theatlantic.com/internationa…
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Devastating in every way from @giselasalimp theatlantic.com/internationa…
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Heartbreaking piece about the earthquakes in Venezuela, and the cold space that always exists between dictatorships and the people they rule, by @giselasalimp
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7 years in the making, this feature for Now Voyager Magazine took me to six countries on 4 continents. The epic story of the famous writer turned travel influencer who became China’s literary lens into Africa, and the world. But was Sanmao’s Africa real? nowvoyagermag.com/@nowvoyage…
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"The Cuban American artist Coco Fusco complained to me that every time she gives a talk about her work on Cuba, an audience member asks her some version of the question: But what about the American blockade?"
Cubans’ Despair | @giselasalimp
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After decades of being buffeted by great powers, repressed by their own government, crushed by economic crises, and paraded as the victims of a succession of sanctions, Cubanos have had it up to here with pretty much everyone, @giselasalimp writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
wrote about cuban people who are very very angry and have every reason to be:
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After decades of being buffeted by great powers, repressed by their own government, crushed by economic crises, and paraded as the victims of a succession of sanctions, Cubanos by now have had it up to here with pretty much everyone, @giselasalimp writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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"I’m trying to convince myself that I’m not missing out on a big portion of the dating scene, but being graciously spared"
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This was a phenomenal essay!
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What Donald Trump wrought in Venezuela could have come from a Wall Street playbook, Gisela Salim-Peyer reports: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Finally had a reason to use my degree in econ! 🤓
A new way to think about what Trump did to Venezuela. Smarts by @giselasalimp theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
very proud that if you look up example sentences for 'political prisoner' in Merriam-Webster, you get my words
read more sentences on political prisoners here: theatlantic.com/internationa…
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Venezuelans once viewed oil as a source of wealth and pride—but now many have come to see it more as a curse, @giselasalimp and @nancyayoussef reported in January: theatlantic.com/internationa…
The most important story I've written in a while:
"For much of the Venezuelan opposition, the fate of the political prisoners promises to show both what the Trump administration intends for Venezuela and whether the country has left Maduro behind," @giselasalimp reports: theatlantic.com/internationa…
A month ago, Trump declared the US would run Venezuela. Today, 70% of known political prisoners locked up, suggesting that either American officials don’t have as much control over the regime as they claim—or that they do and haven’t cared enough to use it
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