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.
In Venezuela, pediatric oncology patients and their relatives struggle with a parent’s worst nightmare... and with a collapsed health system. Fundanica, a foundation in Valencia, walks with them every step of the way.
After leaving Venezuela, a group of Cuban doctors from the Barrio Adentro program told the New York Times how they were instructed to use healthcare—or rather its collapse—as a political weapon to coerce people into voting for Venezuela’s socialist leaders.
One month ago today, soldiers opened fire on civilians in Kumarakapay and Santa Elena de Uairén, killing seven. The civilians had sought to stop the military from blocking humanitarian aid from Brazil. The media left it at that. Here’s what happened next.
On March 22nd, 1931, a group of young exiled politicians, led by Romulo Betancourt, signed a manifesto that would set the foundations of Venezuelan democracy.
A Venezuelan first-year journalism student explains how the detention of Luis Carlos Díaz, a huge influence for a generation that has only experienced media under authoritarianism, was a case study on the internet resistance that Díaz has spent years talking about.
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