Bolivarian Military Justice, and other myths
Even though it has a completely supine civilian justice system under its control, the regime seems minded to replace it with military tribunals it can straight-up order around.
Life
Human Rights Training and the Bolivarian National Police: ¿Pólvora en Zamuro?
My mom's spent 20 years trying to teach Venezuelan cops to respect the law and human rights. After a recent close encounter with the PNB, I ask myself: did she waste her time?
The Tascón List before the IACHR
After thirteen years of waiting, three victims of political discrimination finally get their day in court. Here's why it amounts to more than just a moral victory.
A glimpse into the health crisis
You’ve heard the stories about the magnitude of our health crisis . Here's an objective, quantified glimpse of how bad the situation actually is.
This is Your Brain on VTV
We asked Carlos Hernández to sit and watch Venezuela's all-propaganda-all-the-time flagship state broadcaster for one whole day. He lived to tell the tale. Barely.
DDoSgemony: Civil Society Websites Under Attack
First, they knocked the newspapers out of circulation by cutting off their access to newsprint. Now, an outbreak of cyberattacks is taking down one critical website after another.
OLPs: Picking Up the Pieces of Lives Shattered by Government Death Squads
Counseling the families of those who die violently was never going to be easy. When the perpetrators are the people meant to protect us, it’s that much worse.
Remembrance of Cúcutas Past
Growing up in Táchira, Cúcuta was no mere border town: it was our field of dreams, the one place dad could afford to spoil us. To us, the history of the revolution is the story of our disastrously deteriorating relationship with the town.
Why Peru’s calls for change are the loudest
Perú has just recalled its ambassador after a war of words that cements Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s role as the leading friend of Venezuelan democracy in the hemisphere.
Taking up Permanent Residence in Alternativefactilandia
There's a particular sort of disorientation that comes when the government weaves its own version of truth entirely out of fictions. Venezuelans know all about this.
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