One Flu Away from Disaster
Faced with a catastrophic health crisis, it’s easy to overlook mild ailments. But as medicine costs sky-rocket, even common afflictions can bring huge economic hardships for Venezuelans.
Overcoming the Guarimba Instinct
There's an undeniable high that comes from blocking off your street and showing GNB who's boss. But guarimbas are now arguably as big a threat to the protest movement as repression from the state.
Detainees Tried by Military Justice were Forced to Eat Pasta with Feces
We have run out of adjectives to describe repression in Venezuela.
Three Venezuelan doctors die at sea
Venezuelan doctors are now sailing to Trinidad in search for supplies they can no longer find back home. This week, three of them did not make it back after their boat stalled and sank at sea.
All Chavismo has to say on this Week's Protests.
It's hard to overstate the media blackout Venezuelans are subjected to. Until you see what the government reports instead. Here's a few choice tweets from chavismo's alternate, and coldhearted, reality.
The kind of Easter Week chavismo is having
According to the government, this past week has been all about fried fish, pristine beaches, and no dead protesters.
Protests Outside the Bubble
While the media fixates on Caracas, yesterday saw tough protests all over Venezuela. Here we look at four that were brutally beat back by the police, in Aragua, Carabobo, Mérida and Táchira.
My year without Internet: A #TropicalMierda saga
In 2011, the United Nations declared internet access a Human Right, but news never made it to Venezuela. Maybe it’s still buffering.
Remembrance of Cúcutas Past
Growing up in Táchira, Cúcuta was no mere border town: it was our field of dreams, the one place dad could afford to spoil us. To us, the history of the revolution is the story of our disastrously deteriorating relationship with the town.
About La Rural
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