With the defenestrated Luisa Ortega Diaz traipsing around South America giving speeches denouncing government corruption, the opposition base still can’t seem to make up its mind about what to think of her.
The government has already begun to retroactively blame Friday’s U.S. Sanctions for problems it caused years ago.
Hugo Chávez created the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) as a friendly forum to protect Venezuela from external pressure. These days, the body won’t even hold a meeting if Nicolás Maduro convenes it.
Before he was exiled, before he was targeted by the regime's political police, even before he was El Alcalde, he was Ramón, my friend, the civil servant.
The government has been coercing the broadcasting media into silencing criticisms for years. Now it wants to do the same to you.
Luisa Ortega's highly anticipated speech in Brazil to fellow Prosecutors General included no actual evidence, at least one crazy exaggeration, and ultimately did more to undermine her credibility than the regime's.
Somehow, I found myself drifting through badly lit hallways in downtown Caracas trying to get shady men to help us turn dollars into stacks of bolivar bills...and lived to tell the tale.
After traveling to Caracas for a distant relative's funeral, I realized that dying in Venezuela has turned into an endurance battle against indignity.
In a country with no food, medicines or democracy, a video of a bullied chavista mayor becomes the closest thing to satisfaction that Venezuelans will have over a weekend.
Faced with a shockingly aggressive authoritarian onslaught, MUD has one task and one task alone: to survive.
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