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’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.
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.
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.
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.
Today, we celebrate the day democracy was born in our country. 60 years on, we keep trying to find reasons to celebrate it. So far, we haven't found many.
When he was alive, half of the Venezuelan opposition thought Óscar Pérez was a chavista plant, the other half that he was a bit of a joke. His death —and the desecration of his body— have turned him in death into his dream: a real threat for the government.
In a meeting chavistas requested at the Interamerican Human Rights Commision, Gocho activists watched the government delegation’s faces contort with rage as they realized the official truth wouldn’t go unchallenged.
The Wall Street Journal correspondent is leaving the country after five years. His last story from Venezuela is about the collapse of the oil industry in Lake Maracaibo and what it means for oil workers there. He says he’ll miss the Venezuelan people, just not as much as we’ll miss him.
She was a household name, and one of Venezuela's most respected journalists, with a 17-year track record of achievement at Globovisión. The mistake that got her fired? Talking candidly about what happened on Monday.
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