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In search of the donkey that sparked a national incident in Venezuela

In 2018, two firefighters in the small Venezuelan town of Apartaderos posted a video online likening a local donkey, said to be named ‘Nicolás’, to then-president Nicolás Maduro. The gag quickly went viral, and the pair were swiftly arrested by counterintelligence police, leading to international condemnation. In Looking for a Donkey, filmed six years later, the Venezuelan director Juan Vicente Manrique documents the incident’s local fallout while searching for the fate of the animal at the centre of it. In conversations with........

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