![]() ![]() Thousands of them come together in Venezuela Hasta Los Tuétanos (Venezuela to the Marrow, or to the Bone), a channel María runs on the popular voice-chat app Zello. The voices are those of Venezuelans, as well as of those among the Venezuelan diaspora, who for years have been engulfed by political and economic crisis under the country’s authoritarian leader, Nicolas Maduro. As she falls asleep next to her husband at night, they’re there. As María makes lunch for her kids and drops them off at their school in Miami, the voices are in her ear. Run, run south right now, someone warns as calmly as they can. This is the latest news from the US, says another. As she dreams, she hears a familiar voice explain where you can still find certain medicines. One at a time, they speak of chaos, hunger, confusion. Even when María sleeps, she hears the voices.
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