The Storming of the Apostille
The long, spirit-debilitating process of getting an apostille stamp affixed to their official documents is the red tape nightmare separating Venezuelans from a life abroad.
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The Prisons We Slowly Build For Ourselves
Venezuelans, in an effort to keep robbers and criminals out of their homes and businesses, build custom-made prisons to fence themselves in.
Democracy Retrenches Globally, Collapses Locally
For the first time since The Economist publishes its annual Democracy Index, Venezuela went from hybrid regime to authoritarian regime. Only 19 countries in the world are considered full democracies and 52 are in our new category.
Venezuela Ranked Last in the Rule of Law Index 2017-2018
The World Justice Project considers eight key factors to determine how and if governments uphold the law and if citizens can hold them accountable. Chavismo failed epically, as if officials from the government had gotten their degree at a Misión Sucre.
Anti-Hate Law Used to Harass Media
Security and intelligence agencies are enforcing the Anti-Hate Law, even though it stems from an illegitimate institution. First they went for protesters, now a Cumaná newspaper became the first in its kind to be under investigation.
No Country for Civil Rights
Amid the most terrible crisis Venezuela’s ever faced, anything not related to food or medicine might sound a little ambitious… That’s how we get to be – surprise! – the last country in the region in a matter that’s as much a right as any other.
The Weekly Standard, Meet Piñata Ethics
The Weekly Standard’s Barton Swain introduced an idea for solving the crisis and rescuing the Venezuelan people, and called it “coerced humanitarianism”. Whether or not it can be done, there are always piñata flashbacks to keep us grounded.
Corruption and Inefficiency by the IVSS Kill Venezuelans
Health industry workers know how bad it is and who is to blame for all of it, but patients don’t know how purposefully inefficient the government is.
Crisis Consumes Venezuelans – and Nobody Else
We shouldn’t count on a foreign solution because most of the world doesn’t know what’s happening, those who know don’t really care and those who care – Venezuelan immigrants – can’t do anything.
CECODAP Condemns Children’s Rights Violation in State Propaganda
The NGO accuses the government of violating the rights of minors and manipulating them in a new spot that’s been broadcast on mass media. They have contacted CONATEL and so far… no answer.
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