The mysterious kidnapping of Nairobi Pinto
On April 6th, Venezuelan journalist Nairobi Pinto, who works as head of correspondents for the TV news channel Globovision, was kidnapped by masked individuals outside of her home in...
Relying on the newsprint of neighbors (2nd Update)
As more visible forms of pressure against the media are gaining in prominence, the newsprint shortage faced by most newspapers in Venezuela (which I coined Newsprint-geddon) is still on...
The war on journalists gets worse, cont.
On the night of April 4th, press photographers who were covering protests in Caracas were attacked by armed security personnel from the building that houses the Prisons Ministry (seen in...
Venezuelan inflation in one simple image
You know the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. So, what better way to show how inflation has affected us… than the prices of trading cards for...
The war on journalists gets worse
Yesterday, during the violent rampage by pro-government thugs inside the Universidad Central de Venezuela, several journalists were harrassed, and saw their equipment stolen. Since last month, attacks against...
What happened inside Cadena Capriles?, by @TamoaC
Two weeks ago, this blog reported about the open case of censorship at Ultimas Noticias, Venezuela’s most popular newspaper, and the protest of their journalist staff. The stand-off ended...
Esequibo blues
For generations, all maps of Venezuela have included the term “Area in Contention” (Zona en Reclamacion) to highlight the Guayana Esequiba, currently administered by our neighbor to the East,...
Venezuela: Not so "chévere," by @xavi_dasilveira
Today, I got hold of this open letter addressed to Tourism Minister Andres Izarra by a Uruguayan tourist named Javier da Silveira. In its fifteen pages, he recounts his experiences...
Repression with a Brazilian scent
One of the constant images of the current wave of protests has been the overwhelming and excessive use of tear gas by the National Guard and other security...
Blackouts have not gone away
Venezuela plunged into an electricity crisis in 2009, one that has seen an endless amount of blackouts and hundreds of promises from the government to fix the state-owned...
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