The Hollow Campaign for a Hollow Constituyente
Shmaltzy music, aggressively smiling people and straight-up plagiarism: the propaganda state is using every trick in the book to sell us on Maduro's Constituent Assembly.
The Siege of Alfredo Ramos
With an opposition mayor facing a chavista municipal council, Barquisimeto is on the outer edges of governability.
In Lara, repression comes from multiple fronts
As if tear gas, brutal attacks on neighborhoods and military trials for civilians were not enough, members of human rights organizations are being directly targeted in Lara.
Lobbying the Enemy
Why is Corey Lewandowski’s lobbying firm taking money from a 100% Venezuelan state-owned enterprise?
Venezuela at the center of a political struggle... in El Salvador
A socialist president, a legislature controlled by his opponents and an ideologically heated battle about chavismo. (Stop us if any of this sounds familiar.)
CONATEL, Only more so.
Under new leadership, Venezuela’s telecoms regulator has dispensed with all the legal niceties. The time between you criticizing the government and your station being taken off of cable grids is now down to mere minutes in some cases.
Journalists covering Venezuela’s protests face harassment nationwide
As broadcast media impose a virtual blackout on news about anti-government protest —on an April 12th, no less!— journalists nationwide face violence, intimidation and harassment as they try to do their jobs.
A broadening media black-out targets Venezuelan online video sites
The Venezuelan regime is moving to shut down access not just to broadcast media but even to online sources of video news, including even the National Assembly’s official online channel.
The Story of Roberto Enríquez
The leader of COPEI has sough protection in the Chilean Embassy after being accused of conspiracy and facing a military tribunal. One more notch in the political persecution belt of the Venezuelan government.
#AutogolpeReax: What the papers say
South American papers pretty much all led with the self-coup in Venezuela yesterday. Here's a roundup.
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