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.
Politics
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.
5 de Julio of The Walking Dead
Maracaibo’s throbbing comercial heart looks like a post-apocalyptic zombiescape these days.
A Petrostate Without Any Petrol: Gas Shortages Spread Nationwide
In Venezuela, gasoline is now, quite literally, priceless. Which is just as well, because there isn’t any.
I Saw Kids Fainting from Hunger in the Classroom, So I Decided to Do Something About It
Millions of Venezuelans are facing malnutrition. I know I can’t fix the entire problem. But, together with a couple dozen volunteers, we can help a few hundred at-risk young people and retirees beat acute hunger. So we do.
Pretty Please, Mr. Mass Murderer, Could You Leave the Country, If It’s Not Too Much Trouble?
Colombia’s vicious ELN guerrilla kills Venezuelan soldiers...and Venezuela’s Defense Minister treats them like they’re the Godfather.
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