The New Normal: Now Newspaper Editors Face Jail
With Correo del Caroní's editor facing four years in prison for publishing corruption allegations, the government is cracking down on media harder than ever
Is Peak Hegemony Behind Us?
As the government starts hounding Globovision all over again for - gasp - covering the elected National Assembly, Communicational Hegemony is looking a whole lot less formidable than it once did.
Uruguay finds out it's easier to send food to Venezuela than to get paid for it
Uruguay bet a huge porcentage of its agro-exporting economy on a single deal with the Venezuelan government. What could imaginably go wrong?
ANTV, RIP
On New Year's Eve, the government strips the National Assembly's TV station of all its equipment, and rolls its broadcasting onto VTV. Lindo.
ANTV. It's like C-SPAN, if C-SPAN was run by Communist Propagandists.
Could the controversy over ANTV represent the first crack in chavismo's fierce communicational hegemony?
#ADWARS: That was the campaign that was
Our final wrap-up of the Legislative Election campaign in TV-Spot form.
In Lara 3, Gómez Sigala is just not going to take it anymore
A quite competitive race is under way in one of the safest opposition seats in the country. In one corner, the MUD coalition and Lara’s State Governor Henri...
#ADWARS: Fear vs. Hope
As the campaign winds down, PSUV is using its ads to try to scare the hell out of voters, while MUD leans on its greatest ally: the long cola.
A MIN-imal crackdown
The electoral boobytrap known as MIN-Unidad was sanctioned by the electoral authority last week, but seems like this is a case of "too little, too late."
ADWARS: Introducing the candidates
People running for National Assembly seats want you to know who they are. Some have managed this better than others.
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