Naky gets called Naibet at home and at the bank. She coordinates training programs for an NGO. She collects moments and turns them into words. She has more stories than freckles.
The regime held an election drill that featured the abuses of actual elections seen these 20 years of chavismo; The petrochemical industry is about to stop; Leopoldo López’s escape leaves uncomfortable diplomatic relations behind
The opposition leader escaped the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela, while Embassy workers have been detained; Spain and Venezuela are citing the Vienna Convention to argue about the event
SAIME announced its re-opening, to stimulate participation in the “elections” but offices were overwhelmed and overcrowded after six months of inactivity, and abuses and arbitrary behavior reigned
The organization feels like no political sector is considering the dignity of the most vulnerable Venezuelans; Floods are awful in Aragua state while Maduro wants to have Christmas right now
The OBC expect more protests in the next months. The BCV dollar surpasses the blackmarket dollar, another month without international flights and they’re playing the ethnic rename game with highways while they ignore ethnocide
The report, with data from the RSF, the IPYS and other organizations, registers an alarming deterioration in freedom of speech in Venezuela. Several media outlets were attacked during the weekend while impunity reigns
The basic food basket reached 211 dollars, way, way beyond minimum wage; Sanitary workers keep protesting with over 80,000 officially recognized COVID-19 cases in the nation
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