The April Crisis, Fourteen Years Later
Fourteen years on, Quico re-edits his long essay into what exactly happened during the long, crazy weekend of April 11th-April 14th, 2002.
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April 11, Remembered
Twenty-three years later, the ghosts of Chávez’s comeback, the spectacular failure of Carmona and mass protests from that day still haunt us. Two key reads from the blog’s founder and editor-in-chief explore what happened.
Revelations about Bukele’s Venezuelan prisoners
Salvadoran NGO Cristosal analyzed a sample of 93 Venezuelans and one Salvadoran transferred by the U.S. to El Salvador, out of 261 individuals now held in the CECOT mega-prison. Key findings include:
- 87% of deportees had tattoos—and in 30% of cases, that was the sole basis for linking them to criminal groups.
- 47% had been granted asylum or applied for it.
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2002: The Ugly Sound of History
Those who went to that march to Miraflores, like me, or those who saw it happen on TV, didn’t know back then what we know now: that April 11th, 2002 was going to benefit chavismo, ironically enough, and change the country in profound and perhaps irreversible ways.
Thou shall not talk about crime
Venezuelan journalist Nakary Ramos and her husband Gianni González were forcibly disappeared for over 48 hours. While working for Impacto Venezuela, she recently reported on whether rising insecurity in Caracas is linked to returning deportees from the United States.
Ramos and González now face charges of inciting hatred and spreading fake news, and have been sent to the notorious INOF and Rodeo II prisons. They have a 5-year-old daughter.
At least 13 members of the press are currently jailed in Venezuela, according to the National Association of Journalists (CNP).
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