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Zima Blue: The color of yourself

  " You always go back to the old places where you loved life" -Mercedes Sosa (Spoilers)           I've been meditating for a year. I started doing it hoping to find a cure for my anxieties, but to no avail. Only from the day that my mom kissed me on the forehead while I was having my daily session, did I begin to achieve true inner calm, and a clarity that dispelled all fear. I am sure that that same epiphany was the one that Zima Blue, the protagonist of the homonymous episode of the Love, Death and Robots series, had when he dismantled himself on the pool of her former creator and returned to be the simple machine designed to clean it: it's the simple, the simply beautiful, that gives life meaning. Much like me searching for an answer to my fears, Zima insisted on making his existence meaningful, although he went to the depths of the universe to find it. But the answer, long before he knew it, was within him (and is within us) from the beginning. Th...

All talk and no action at the National Assembly

             Caracas.  Yesterday the ordinary online session of the National Assembly of Venezuela (AN) began with an agenda that covered several points pertinent to the current critical situation in the nation. However, the parliament did not take any significant action to address them, reserving its efforts to only debate them briefly. Starting the first point on the agenda, which dealt with the electoral conditions for holding clean and transparent elections, deputy Omar Barboza listed a list of various requirements for the upcoming elections to be safe, including guaranteeing voting security and the establishment of an independent National Electoral Council. He was followed by deputies Macario González, Oneiber Peraza, and Ángel Medina, each of them declaring the desire of the Venezuelan people to vote, the inexistence of a democratic apparatus in the nation and the fight that must be fought to achieve these conditions. Guaidó rejected th...