What 12 de Octubre Means
Today was supposed to start the same way the last eight Días de la Resistencia Indígena have: happy, hungover, and glad to stay in. Instead, Venezuelans begin today driven by a cause…or at least we want to be.
A Presidential Déjà Vu
When a President-chosen-by-lineage tells his VP the same thing his predecessor told him, you really start to wonder.
SEBIN Arrests Activists Who Produced PJ Video Against Repression
As the police starts arresting people for making protest videos against the police repressing people who protest, Venezuela's dictatorship is now beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt.
The Survival of Hope
It’s hard to explain what you feel when you’re 23 years old and went through your first tear gas volley 14 years ago, at age 9. Carlos Egaña explains it’s been like, growing up in our Venezuela.
Venezuela Falls Apart: A Global Dispatches Podcast
"Why hadn't Venezuela collapsed sooner?". Our own Francisco Toro is interviewed by Mark Goldberg at Global Dispatches Podcast.
A good look at food shortages
With the minimum wage being a fraction of what it takes to feed a family, and endless controls and regulations strangling productivity, this is the image of La Revolución. Take a good look.
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