This fall, two months after Venezuela’s disputed presidential election plunged the country into crisis — with Nicolás Maduro claiming victory despite overwhelming evidence he’d lost — six of the country’s most influential figures convened in ...

Mark Brown has spent years traveling around Venezuela, talking and playing with some of the country's folk musicians. Brown, who lived in Caracas and New York for most of his life before moving to Houston a few years back, traveled all over the country on ...