Distancing from old allies made the regime look lonelier than ever in the Human Rights Council
Your weekly reminder that Venezuela remains a terrible place to do business. Please try fixing that too
We used to assume that rightwing governments at our borders were bad news for chavismo. We can’t count on that anymore
It’s official. The US will also prosecute the Brooklyn-based couple over the imprisonment and cruel treatment of American citizens.
The government needs to make it seem like they’re doing something to solve the crisis they generated or win the war they invented, but they don’t just arrest the people who are allegedly guilty. They come for their family members to bait them.
More and more governments in the world are working to release Maduro from international isolation, as if nothing has happened. But the International Criminal Court is still working, and human rights continue to be under severe threat
Chavismo’s reign of terror is also built on the systematic arrest of foreign nationals as bargaining chips, the UN notes. A practice that foreign countries seem unable to counter
In an ironic plot twist, Maduro now invokes constitutional protections that his own regime routinely denied to political prisoners. But his case is not as black and white as it seems
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Long-awaited freedom won’t be realized if we fail to address the power inequalities that plagued us long before chavismo
The legal weapon that jailed almost 1,000 people remains a key tool of the repressive apparatus
Venezuela needs to dismantle the presidency chavismo built without creating a government too weak to rebuild the country
By shedding slogans and key operatives, the Rodríguez siblings bet on turning the conflict with the opposition to their advantage
How experts are reacting, what politicians are saying, and who’s the oligarch in the middle of everything
