Chávez’s government made of Misión Barrio Adentro one of the main tropes of its worldwide propaganda success. But that program was really a fiasco, instrumentalized by its creators: castrismo officers with proven experience in selling a lie for decades.
Zulia has four thermal power stations, able to provide 76% of the energy that Zulia needs. But all of them are off, and Maracaibo is being powered only by a string of electricity coming from the other side of the country. Why? Corruption and mismanagement .
This report by Human Rights Watch in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is perhaps the most comprehensive, detailed international report made on the crisis so far.
In Venezuela, there have been politicians who have also been writers, but there’s only one case of a president who was a writer more than anything else, and his name was Rómulo Gallegos. He died this day, in 1969.
The electric crisis has turned the massive infrastructure that Caracas needs to pump water, utterly useless. After a month without water through the pipes, the consequences of this man-made drought may soon outweigh those of blackouts themselves.
A Venezuelan scholar based in Ottawa explains how different groups of leftist activists are coordinated by the dictatorship and allies like Russia, to agitate and spread lies at universities, media and the streets of North America.
Just four days before the event was to take place, on March 22 the Inter-American Development Bank canceled its annual meeting to be held in Chengdu because China refused to grant a visa to Guaidó’s appointee. But this is an opportunity to Guaidó to build bridges with Beijing.
This documentary by Venezuelan filmmaker Tuki Jencquel, filmed at Caracas with no financial support from the state and therefore complete independence, starts its international film festival round. Its focus: our people’s resilience in an overwhelming routine.
I have lived for 14 years in one of the former chavista strongholds in Caracas, a low-income network of barrios with around 200,000 people, and I've seen how hardship and repression destroyed Maduro’s influence over my neighbors.
On March 26th, 207 years ago, an earthquake devastated Caracas and other cities in that young Venezuela that was trying to be a republic. The event was decisive to the collapse of the revolutionary regime.
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