Farmers mining bitcoin, pranes using digital traces to kidnap people, hackers in shantytowns at the service of the secret police, chieftains paying for bots, biopolitical control and a presidential assassination attempt using drones. My country is a bad sci-fi movie.
On the same day that chavismo said that Venezuela was the second South American country welcoming more immigrants, Human Rights Watch published a report preaching the hard truth about the horrid Venezuelan migrants crisis.
Chavismo tries to pay lip service to highbrow art with a heavily politicized week-long Picasso event where, in fact, the 149 pieces displayed were anything but political. How political can a blocky coffee pot be?
Visiting a prisoner in Venezuelan jails became a traumatic ordeal. Relatives of Cabimas prisoners speak out against CONAS officers, report the abuses they endure and chronicle how the guards mistreat visitors as if they were animals.
The economic measures recently imposed by Maduro caused uncertainty and fear among shop owners in Barquisimeto. They have no capacity to pay the new minimum wage and unemployment and shutdowns might become the new normal.
This school year, 15% of schools may shut down: between 400 and 500 preschools, elementary schools and high schools won’t be able to open in September. The new economic measures put a noose around the neck of parents and representatives, teachers and students alike.
As the hegemony’s restrictions increase, local media in Venezuela face an existential threat thanks to the latest economic measures. And all over the country, some of them are closing shop for now… How do we know it’s not for good?
Cemetery El Cuadrado can no longer offer a final resting space. Graverobbers, lack of maintenance and government negligence are threatening what little is left of historic memories, art and peace for the deceased.
For a supposed gamechanger in cryptocurrencies, the petro is almost impossible to find anywhere. A special report by Reuters doesn’t have many answers, but raises many questions instead.
Of the economic measures Maduro announced in August, the tax reform is perhaps the part that people have paid less attention to.
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