This grieving group of women organized to force the Venezuelan State to answer for the extrajudicial executions of their sons, husbands, and brothers—and, hopefully, put a stop to this horrific practice
This week, the video of an execution, followed by an audio clip of an officer explaining how to cover up the evidence, went viral on social media. The reaction shows how immoral our security forces are... and our public opinion, too
While the regime's security forces advance to positions that belonged to El Koki’s gang, the neighbors share what living under this kind of violence is like
While foreign governments, NGOs and UN organizations condemn the extrajudicial killings and impose sanctions, the Venezuelan population still believes in the iron fist speech, to Maduro’s advantage
The Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) has become the first private Venezuelan university to create a protocol for sexual abuse prevention and gender or sexual identity discrimination—and it's tending also to harassment complaints
What would you do if two grenades exploded in your middle-class neighborhood within one week? Panicking, at least… if you don’t live in a place like Maracaibo
A gang-war that endangers over 500,000 people has just exploded in Petare, and the neighbors of the barrio pray for sunrise—and even for the criminals themselves
A once peaceful area on the northwest of Venezuela now lives under an armed group that imposes its rule of terror. Its story, and how it came to be, reflect the general decay of Zulia today.
20 women have been murdered in 26 days in Venezuela, and everything in this wave of femicides points at the impunity created by an indifferent, disappearing state.
Newsweek’s Mac Margolis has an excellent report from Rio de Janeiro outlining the scale of police action it will take to make real inroads into our own problem...
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