Category: MATURIN

MATURIN, VENEZUELA: ON THE WAY OUT, FAREWELL…

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Simon Bolivar mural in the Maturin Airport
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Departing Maturin from the plane window
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Arriving in Caracas from the plane window
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Another view of Caracas from the plane. It looks like a toy model of a town, doesn’t it?
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In Caracas, looking up from my 4-star hotel to the colorful houses of a barrio above.
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A plate of tequenos and dipping sauce, from Mr. Grill Restaurant in the Eurobuilding Hotel, Caracas.
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Farewell to Caracas from the plane window.
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Arriving in Miami: view from the plane window after about a 2-month stint abroad…

FEB13. Venezuela, Miami.

MATURIN, VENEZUELA: MARKETS

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She’s making platanos (fried plantain cakes)

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All middle-class neighborhoods are surrounded by gates like this and you have to be let in and out by a security guard.

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Shocking how many people and how long the queues are in just a pharmacy (the equivalent of a Walgreen’s or CVS.)

26JAN13. Maturin, Venezuela.

MATURIN, VENEZUELA STREET ART & GRAFFITI: PIG POLITIKS

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A cool painting of a pig. Beside him, is a blacked-out stencil of Capriles Rodonski, Hugo Chavez’s opponent in last year’s presidential election.

27JAN13. Maturin, Venezuela.

MATURIN, VENEZUELA: PARQUE GUARICHA – LOOK AT HOW BIG MY (PEA)COCK CAN GET

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I was taken for a walk around Parque Guaricha in the center of Maturin today. Here is a peacock strutting his stuff.

20JAN13. Maturin, Venezuela.

MATURIN, VENEZUELA STREET ART & GRAFFITI: “INNOCENCE AND FASCISM”

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Check it out! Someone defiled this Chavez stencil by coloring in a Hitler-esque mustache! Dangerous…

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Full wall perspective.

20JAN13. Maturin, Venezuela.

MATURIN, VENEZUELA: LOYALTY TO A WAY OF LIFE

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Loyalty to Chavez is always passing us by…

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Underground rubbish bins. You don’t have to touch the lids with your hands. Clever.

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The high walls and the barbed wire that protect us in our compound.

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“While you are a cat looking for solutions”…not translated at its best, I’m sure.

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Now, this cat looks insane, crazy, possessed, rabid, ferocious…on the attack!!! but…I swear, it was the sweetest little kitty. I just caught it ‘mid-meow’ and somehow that precise shot turned this sweet, little kitty into a maniac.

el Centro

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a small burger kiosk

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“Che” on a wall of a fenced in, broken down home…

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Does this guy even need an introduction? come on! I found Jesus (!) on the side of a van…

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the outside of a liquor store

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18JAN13. Maturin, Veneuzuela.