The Yale Globalist Blog

First, let me welcome everyone to the first post of the Globalist  blog. Our intent is to create a place for our staff and alumni to share stories from around the world as well as their opinions on current events. We’ll also post the occasional entry about the magazine itself.

Last May, we took our annual research trip, to Venezuela. Check our website to see the issue itself, but, in any case, we received a rather passionate letter from someone we talked to while there. I reproduce the letter in full. Anyone who was on the trip, I invite you to respond.

Dear students from the Yale Globalist,
 
My name is Manuel Lepervanche, I was one of the students you met when you came to Venezuela last May. I recently read your piece on Venezuela, and it was very unsatisfactory, to say the least. It was a disappointment on two levels: its lack of serious research and, more dangerously, its condescending view of our situation.
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