Factories of Death: the Jails of the Maduro Era
On May 1st, 47 prisoners were executed in a confusing event in Guanare. Venezuela has a horrible history of prison massacres
Tag: Jails
"I knew they had guns, I didn't know they had Uzis..."
Prison reform is one of those inherently unpopular issues: anger over crime runs so deep that people, by and large, don’t want to hear about it. Which is...
Españolification Chronicles
So I’ve decided that the way I’m going to get all you deadbeats to check out CronicasDeCaracas.net is by posting most new material in Spanish only over the...
Venezuela's Prison Shame
Since 2000, Venezuela’s prison capacity has grown by 1,200 places, thanks to the expansion of Yare Penitenciary and the construction of a new jail in Coro. In the...
How to Cut the Murder Rate in Half by 2016
If you’re a believer in the Three Bullet-Point Transition (TM), you know that making deep inroads into Venezuela’s outrageously high murder rate is one of the things any...
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