One century ago, this was a dictator’s favorite city. In the 90s, it was the place where Hugo Chávez prepared his coup. Now, at the Círculo Militar the privileged in uniform can be spared of the predicaments of civilians.
The collapse of the country’s power network, which worsens the already catastrophic conditions the population is forced to endure, is the outcome of the interruption of a long development program that started half a century ago
There can be a huge gap between reality and propaganda, and between what Venezuelans experience on the ground and what leftist Americans or Canadians can say to confirm their own preconceptions. What does Venezuela’s Roscharch image say about you?
The electric crisis has turned the massive infrastructure that Caracas needs to pump water, utterly useless. After a month without water through the pipes, the consequences of this man-made drought may soon outweigh those of blackouts themselves.
At first, it was temporary, but on March 28th American Airlines announced the decision to suspend all flights to and from Venezuela for good. Just how trapped Venezuelans really are?
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.
Amid the overwhelming effects of two nationwide blackouts in the same month, the International Red Cross announces that it will start to distribute humanitarian aid in the country, along with the Catholic Church. Both the regime and Guaidó’s camp will move the struggle back to the main subject of our health crisis.
In this essay, a veteran of the American Left traces the evolution of the mind frame among activists that links a leftist ruling party with the people, melting both categories into one single blind spot. This is how the Left became unable to see a dictatorship in the Maduro regime.
To understand how a regime with such awful performance can endure the steadfast calls for its demise, one must look at its capacity to punish treason, an old and effective tool in the dark arts of dictatorship.
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.
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