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.
Taking a few pages from the Cuban playbook, the Network of Articulation and Sociopolitical Action (Raas), picks up where the Ley Sapo left off. Big Brother and your next-door neighbors are watching.
As blackouts wreak havoc on the country once again, it’s hard to remember that Venezuela once had a stable and functional electric system. There’s nothing that decades of underinvestment and rampant corruption can’t destroy.
Lorent Saleh is a rebel who didn’t need political parties, he fought cops and claimed he’d use snipers. No one backed him up then, and nobody knows why he’s out of jail. Or do we?
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Ilich Ramírez, known as Carlos The Jackal, our most bloodthirsty, infamous terrorist has a dream for Venezuela. He sits behind bars, and will never make those dreams come true, but how would Venezuelans react to his offer?
Every day, dozens of children and teenagers roam freely on the streets of Chacao municipality. They form gangs, beg for food or something to sell, steal what they can from shops and rob people. The government, of course, denies this happens so they won’t have to fix it.
The Boston Group and Republicans Bob Corker and Caleb McCarry, among others, have committed to the task of negotiating to solve the Venezuelan crisis, with a little resistance from certain opposition factions. Why? Because there’s no guarantee they won’t make it worse.
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