People Are Protesting, You Just Don't Hear About It
Protesting in Venezuela can be hazardous to your health, but that doesn't stop the daily struggle of those fighting for their rights while the infrastructure collapses.
Politics
Raúl Gorrín’s Empire of Graft Comes Crashing Down
Globovisión owner Raúl Gorrín worked hard to look like a respectable businessman. An indictment in a U.S. federal court now confirms what Venezuelans suspected: it was a sham.
Goodbye Bolivar
Venezuela’s currency is dying not with a bang, but with a whimper as virtually all large —and many mid-sized— transactions are switching, de facto, to the dollar.
Backyard Burials: the New Venezuelan Way of Death
Improvised burials are the new normal for poor Venezuelans. With so little on offer for the living in Venezuela, what can the dead expect?
BusTV: Culture Jamming Censorship One Bus at a Time
How do you let people know what’s going on amid the censorship raj? We do it on public transport, with a cardboard cut-out TV screen and a YouTube channel, to the beat of salsa.
Web of Repression to Close Newspapers
As media outlets in Venezuela are suffocated to the point of closure, a new report by NGO Transparencia Venezuela shows the mechanisms used by the hegemony to make it happen.
Reuters Confirms the Carnet de la Patria Is Utterly Evil
Reuters published an article describing how Chinese telecom giant ZTE helps Maduro & Co. monitor and keep track of fatherland card-carrying citizens’ every move. The details of the data recollection resemble a horror story gone Venezuela.
Mafias Search for Lost Gasoline, Civilians Pick Up the Last Drops
The revolution’s aim at a feudal state controlled by mafias grows stronger as smugglers and the black market thrive with the shortage of gasoline. Who will survive this mayhem? Ruthless mafias or scared citizens?
Chavismo Kicks the Ill When They’re Down
What does a day looking for medicine look like? It looks like an authoritarian game of ignominy and frontal abuse.
Teodoro’s Mission Impossible
Teodoro Petkoff’s stint as a minister (1996-1998) is largely forgotten, or misremembered as a failure. In fact, his success at an impossible task—structural adjustment—was remarkable, almost unprecedented.
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