On February 27th, 1989, a protest around an increase in bus fares evolved into four days of looting and massive repression. Back then, a new economic model failed at the beginning of its implementation, and the violence arrived to stay.
Venezuelans stranded on the other side of the closed Colombian border are torn between the desire to see their families again, and fear of regime violence.
After the interview was interrupted by the dictator, the most famous Latino news anchor in the world and his crew were detained for hours, his equipment taken and then ordered to leave the country.
Fear and confusion abound in the point where Brazilian aid was supposed to enter Venezuela on February 23rd. The violence revealed to the world a wider reality: the complex relationship between Chávez’s revolution and the suffering indigenous nations of Venezuela.
Imagine that many kids are so sick with tropical diseases in private academies in Miami or Toronto that they lose months of lessons. Imagine that public schools in Brooklyn or downtown Montreal are workin
I've been in many demonstrations through these years of violence in Venezuela. But what I saw on February 23rd, at the border with Colombia, was different: an entire society fighting with the desperation of those who have nothing else to lose.
While the push for getting the aid into the country faced military and paramilitary violence in three of our borders, at former chavista strongholds people demand a change, now. This is the second entry of Camille’s motorcycle diaries, a series of dispatches on mototaxi from Caracas.
The battle for humanitarian aid at the Venezuela-Colombia border affected people on both sides, physically and spiritually. Anger, frustration, chaos and a glimmer of hope, this is what we saw from the field.
We Venezuelans need to have the right expectations about what will happen in the following weeks. One particular issue, amnesty, is a whole source of dissent, disappointment and conflict.
Nicolás Maduro tried to stop Venezuelans from watching and hearing the Venezuela Aid Live concert by taking down two cable channels and launching several Internet blockings.
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