Tag: time of his death
Is Venezuela ‘Fixed’? – The Atlantic
“Venezuela is fixed.” Pundits began saying this on Venezuelan state media a couple of years ago, and it became a mantra for a numbed nation. But even Nicolás Maduro, the president, concedes that the phrase is not quite right. The country is not yet fixed, he said in a press conference in 2022, but it’s very much improving.
“Venezuela is fixed.” Perhaps to Maduro’s annoyance, the mantra has become a sarcastic quip, invoked when the Caracas airport goes dark during
The Life and ‘Times’ of Joseph Lelyveld
Joe Lelyveld, who died earlier this month at the age of 86, was the last great print editor of The New York Times, a steward and symbol of a passing era. He presided over the newsroom during a period when the Times, like almost all newspapers, defined its journalism by what rolled off the presses every night. And he was there for the beginning of momentous upheaval for the Times and for American journalism, with the rise of