Jacinto Convit is gone
Renowned Venezuelan doctor and scientist Jacinto Convit passed away today in Caracas. He was 100 years old. His life was full of great achievements, including the development of...
Life
Media watchdogs - they're watching you
The Venezuelan government is finding subliminal war propaganda in DirecTV’s ads for the World Cup. Then again, chavismo has always had a thing against DirecTV. Read the link –...
Chavismo under the orientalist lens
(This is a guest post by Venezuelan anthropologist Pedro Manrique. We haven’t done one of these in a long time, and I kind of dug it. I hope you...
Know fear
The lingering question as we conclude Human Rights week is – why? What are the authorities looking for? Are they looking to stoke the protests? Do they want them...
Malaria keeps on surging
The return of malaria to Venezuela almost half century after the World Health Organization confirmed its full erradication is not new to this blog. In recent months the...
The scandalous Mr. Aveledo
Ramón Guillermo Aveledo, the Secretary General of the MUD, got mired in a public relations disaster today. It all started this morning. During a hearing in the United States Senate, Assistant...
Your daily dose of crazy
Every morning, before I get out of bed, when my alarm goes off at 6:00 AM, I check my email for the news roundup from Venezuela. I really...
Power, impunity, and hacks
If there is one arm of the Venezuelan state apparatus that comes out looking like royal crap in the Human RIghts Watch report, it is the public prosecutors....
Caracas activa
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Camera-shy monsters
One of the things that jumps out of the Human Rights Watch report is how our human rights violators seem to be fearful of appearing on video. As...
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