Venezuela: Memorias de un futuro perdido

Creator: Rafael Osío Cabrices

Title: Venezuela: Memorias de un futuro perdido

Publisher: Catarata

Date: 2024

Language: Spanish

Description:

Venezuela is like a beached whale, surrounded by a stunned crowd. No one knows exactly how it got there, yet everyone wants to explain the reasons behind it. What happened to this country that once seemed so full of promise?

Rafael Osío Cabrices tackles this question from three perspectives: that of a journalist who witnessed key events and had access to their main actors; that of a migrant whose distance allows him to see his homeland through a different lens; and that of a member of the last generation to experience democracy and believe in its promises for the future.

Faced with the unsettling questions raised by this anatomy lesson, Osío turns on the time machine and retraces the storms that shattered Venezuela’s oil-driven dreams and upended its utopias. After this journey, he reveals what Venezuelans still hold onto for the future: the hope of building something new from the remnants of what never was.

The result feels like an unforgettable conversation—rich in nuance—with a well-informed friend who dismantles myths and offers rare insight into what it feels like when history barges in through the window and upends your world. (Tropico Absoluto, translated from Spanish by Archivo Venezuela).

Subject: Essay, Venezuela, Rafael Osío Cabrices

Type: Text

Format: Printed book

Rights: External reference

Relation: Interview with Rafael Osío Cabrices on the Publication of Venezuela: memorias de un futuro perdido.

Identifier: ENS0001

Collection: Essay

Citation: Rafael Osío Cabrices, Venezuela: Memorias de un futuro perdido, Catarata, 2024, accessed September 22, 2026, https://archivovenezuela.com/en/items/show/84