The government has started shutting down the shelters set up in Bolívar, after 3,351 people were displaced by out-of-season flooding along the Orinoco. The thing is, people's homes are still under water, and the actual rainy season just started.
With Barrio Adentro Mission now handling 96% fewer patients than in its heyday and public hospitals no longer stocking even aspirine, Venezuela is on the verge of a Complex Humanitarian Emergency.
Today, Venezuela lost a giant. Teodoro Petkoff, who died today at the age of 86, morphed from communist guerrilla to conscience of the nation.
Each of the Venezuelan States has its own specific set of idiosyncrasies, their own very distinct way of communicating, eating, living and handling their affairs. Particular ghosts, monsters and creatures roam each region, as an army of dead that remind us of the violence, misery and dispair within each community.
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.
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