IPYS reports that most of the country lacks local news, except for a few big cities where press freedom has gained ground
Delcy Rodríguez today tried to hide the country's environmental record. Here’s what a credible climate policy should look like
Security analyst Daniel Blanco discusses the US role in reshaping the FANB, strikes against the ELN, and the covert mechanics behind Machado’s return
It’s official. The US will also prosecute the Brooklyn-based couple over the imprisonment and cruel treatment of American citizens.
The government needs to make it seem like they’re doing something to solve the crisis they generated or win the war they invented, but they don’t just arrest the people who are allegedly guilty. They come for their family members to bait them.
More and more governments in the world are working to release Maduro from international isolation, as if nothing has happened. But the International Criminal Court is still working, and human rights continue to be under severe threat
Chavismo’s reign of terror is also built on the systematic arrest of foreign nationals as bargaining chips, the UN notes. A practice that foreign countries seem unable to counter
In an ironic plot twist, Maduro now invokes constitutional protections that his own regime routinely denied to political prisoners. But his case is not as black and white as it seems
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A Venezuelan commander infected a gay man with an STD after raping him for 25 minutes, according to the UN Fact-Finding Mission
In a new book, Martín Rodríguez Rodríguez argues that chavista oil diplomacy actually succeeded
I crossed a mining region still run by mafias. Here’s how locals live down there
From rape threats to genital shocks, the UN ditches the euphemisms surrounding abuse against male, female and LGBTQ+ political prisoners
Richard Grenell failed to become Trump’s man in Caracas. A fresh scandal threatens him, just after the White House fired two of his friends
