Venezuela is an accelerator of psychological pictures associated with the Ulysses Syndrome: the longing for homelands and lives taken by dictatorships, authoritarianisms and failed states. “Ulysses spent his days sitting on the rocks, by the sea, wasting away with crying, sighing and sorrow, fixing his eyes on the barren sea, crying tirelessly …” (Odyssey). Just as Ithaca’s 20 years of remoteness haunted the mythological hero, a chronic and multiple stress thrives among the millions of Venezuelan emigrants, consumed by the loss of rights, families, attachments and … By Bhavi Mandalia. Full Text -> Pledge Times