As broadcast media impose a virtual blackout on news about anti-government protest —on an April 12th, no less!— journalists nationwide face violence, intimidation and harassment as they try to do their jobs.
The Venezuelan regime is moving to shut down access not just to broadcast media but even to online sources of video news, including even the National Assembly’s official online channel.
An explosive report in El Nacional peels back the curtain on La Red: the government’s system for infiltrating opposition protests, turning them violent, and collecting intelligence in the process.
A Rip Van Winkle waking up from a week-long sleep today would hardly recognize the political moment Venezuela is now living.
Twenty countries called for an emergency session today. Bolivia cancelled it. Argentina's Foreign Minister flew all the way from Buenos Aires. Honduras has been named temporary president. Madness, I tell you, madness!
El nuevo presidente ecuatoriano deberá gobernar un país en donde la mitad de su población cuestiona su legitimidad, con una compleja situación económica y entre profundo escepticismo hacia la autoridad electoral. Esto ya ha pasado antes, ¿Verdad?
Ecuador's new president will govern a country where over half of the population questions his legitimacy, amidst a complex economic situation and skepticism over the CNE's impartiality. Sound familiar?
A dispatch from our guy in Ecuador, as exit polls start pouring in.
Venezuela doesn’t have any serious legal problems, other than the fact that it doesn’t have an executive branch, doesn’t have a legislative branch, and doesn’t have a judicial branch.
Bloomberg tracked down Michael Hudson, Maduro's new favourite economist. Turns out he's not quite as enamoured of Maduro as Maduro is of him.
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