The government has started shutting down the shelters set up in Bolívar, after 3,351 people were displaced by out-of-season flooding along the Orinoco. The thing is, people's homes are still under water, and the actual rainy season just started.
With Barrio Adentro Mission now handling 96% fewer patients than in its heyday and public hospitals no longer stocking even aspirine, Venezuela is on the verge of a Complex Humanitarian Emergency.
Each of the Venezuelan States has its own specific set of idiosyncrasies, their own very distinct way of communicating, eating, living and handling their affairs. Particular ghosts, monsters and creatures roam each region, as an army of dead that remind us of the violence, misery and dispair within each community.
When the leaders who signed the Punto Fijo Pact sat down to draft a governability agreement, they had no blueprint to work from. Behind them stretched 130 years of militarism, instability and chaos. Here's the story of how three men managed to cut the deal that made democracy possible in Venezuela for decades.
These days, if you're a news giant and you need to roll-out a brand new anti-censorship system, you know where you go first.
When thugs roughed up María Corina Machado in Upata, the regime tried to blame the low level guys who carried out the orders. Let’s see how that’s working out for them.
In an interview with El Mundo, Lorent Saleh tells the story of the four years he spent behind bars in Venezuela. A dystopian tale that highlights the inhuman treatment that political prisoners are forced to endure in our county.
This week, a group of chavistas attacked María Corina Machado and her team in Bolívar State. We know that nothing scares chavistas more than a brilliant, courageous, educated woman who threatens to overthrow a dictatorship with conviction and the power of her ideas of prosperity, peace, democracy and a better future for Venezuelans.
For centuries, Native Venezuelan communities had been able to self-sustain. This has changed, they’ve become increasingly more dependent on the government, and it has brought all kinds of problems for the different indigenous ethnicities of Zulia, Delta Amacuro, Amazonas and Bolívar states.
We thought it’d be easier to get rid of him because “Maduro is no Chávez” and yet, five years later, there he is. “How’s he still there?” is the question on everyone's mind. The answer is painfully obvious.
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