When the leaders who signed the Punto Fijo Pact sat down to draft a governability agreement, they had no blueprint to work from. Behind them stretched 130 years of militarism, instability and chaos. Here's the story of how three men managed to cut the deal that made democracy possible in Venezuela for decades.
These days, if you're a news giant and you need to roll-out a brand new anti-censorship system, you know where you go first.
Comments are back, but different. We’re actively moderating them, under a new comments policy. It’s going to be way better this way.
When thugs roughed up María Corina Machado in Upata, the regime tried to blame the low level guys who carried out the orders. Let’s see how that’s working out for them.
Yesterday, Brazilians were called to choose between two catastrophes...not surprisingly, what they chose is a catastrophe.
The government copied Pérez Bonalde and named it Plan Vuelta a la Patria. They caused the crisis that forced people to leave and now they offer a free service to get them back to Venezuela. The thing is, this journey is everything but poetic.
Through an independent project that started years ago, Héctor Torres and Albor Rodríguez reconcile and describe the realities of all Venezuelans, uniting us in our differences.
This week, a group of chavistas attacked María Corina Machado and her team in Bolívar State. We know that nothing scares chavistas more than a brilliant, courageous, educated woman who threatens to overthrow a dictatorship with conviction and the power of her ideas of prosperity, peace, democracy and a better future for Venezuelans.
For centuries, Native Venezuelan communities had been able to self-sustain. This has changed, they’ve become increasingly more dependent on the government, and it has brought all kinds of problems for the different indigenous ethnicities of Zulia, Delta Amacuro, Amazonas and Bolívar states.
In Western Venezuela, monsters, spirits and ghosts abound. Some of them roam our land to escape oblivion, keep trespassers at bay and communicate with the nature around them and protect it.
We’ve been able to hang on for 22 years in one of the craziest media landscapes in the world. We’ve seen different media outlets in Venezuela (and abroad) closing shop, something we’re looking to avoid at all costs. Your collaboration goes a long way in helping us weather the storm.
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