Yesterday, under the onslaught of tear gas, desperate opposition protesters jumped into the toxic Rio Guaire. Twelve years after Hugo Chávez promised to clean up the river, hundreds of millions have been spent for no results at all.
Virtually everything you think you know about the revolt in Caracas on April 19th, 1810 is wrong. Then 207 years from now nobody will be able to make heads or tails of today's protests, either.
Human Rights Watch reports on the increasingly desperate Venezuelans fleeing to Brazil's Roraima State.
Chavismo lies. It also supports torture, disappearances, arbitrary arrests and mock trials.
The regime may have Communicational Hegemony. But we have Whatsapp.
Amid the generalized political turmoil of recent days, this Holy Week has been anything but holy. Here's a few things you should know about Venezuela, religion and politics.
A chilling, first-hand account of a doctor refusing to turn a battered protester in to "law enforcement" puts a new spin on the word "terrorist."
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.
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