A mother lost

Motherland: The Disintegration of a Family in a Collapsed Venezuela, Paula Ramón, translated by Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue, 2023, AmazonCrossing

It is hard for the left to confront the human cost of their failures, and this book will definitely not be on the must read lists of die-hard apologists of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution.

But it should be, because alongside a consensus that something went badly wrong . . .

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Categories: North America, South America, United States, Venezuela

Gavin O'Toole

I've spent much of my career in journalism and newspaper production: worked as a sub-editor and in other production roles at major UK newspapers including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph. Covering business, finance, regulation, Latin American affairs and more. As a journalist and freelance writer I've contributed to many publications: work appears in outlets such as Al Jazeera, Public Finance, Global Government Forum, among others. Also an an award-winning writer of short stories and novelist. 

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