Maracaibo mayor Omar Prieto raided Las Pulgas market in Maracaibo last week. What will this do for people? What will it solve? Nothing. The government apparatus works like a smooth machine in at least one way: people blame, hate and root against the wrong culprit all the time.
The price of what had been the cheapest gas on Earth was supposed to increase recently. A long-overdue measure that Maduro assures will improve the economy, but will only deepen the fierce control the State has over the average Venezuelan life.
Two firemen were imprisoned for comparing Nicolás Maduro to a donkey. Laughter is a traditional way to criticize power, but can it start a political movement? Yes, it can, if we build a discourse around it.
A special piece about the Orinoco Mining Arc recently won an important journalism award by the Online News Association, but the photojournalist involved in the project has been missing for more than six months.
This time, hyperinflation and the economic crisis strike Larense parents and students. It’s just too expensive to send properly attired and equipped children to school, so teachers found a way.
Last week Colombia’s new ambassadors to the USA and the OAS said all options regarding Venezuela are on the table. Meanwhile, President Iván Duque contradicted them with a more cautious approach.
Tuesday was the first day of debate of a UN General Assembly session and Venezuela was, to put in mildly, the talk of the town, without even having the floor yet, mainly due the migration crisis that has affected the whole region.
It sure is a great coincidence that mere days after Maduro’s trip to China and after the U.S. sent their USNS Comfort to the Colombian shore, Venezuelan waters are now hosting China’s Peace Ark, their own hospital ship.
A viral video featuring a donkey as Nicolás Maduro could cost a couple of Merida State firemen up to twenty years in jail for “inciting hate”.
After a month of Maduro’s new economic measures, what’s life like on the formerly crowded streets of Caracas? Lots of closed shops, and not a lot of hope.
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