Caracas Chronicles

Venezuela’s Western state of Zulia has a long and proud tradition of protest music: gaiteros have always raised their voices against injustice. But under growing pressure from the government, radio stations no longer dare to air it.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Kejal Vyas and Carlos Becerra have a brutal, engrossing feature about what happens to a small community in Portuguesa, when the government seizes the assets of a big local employer, and replaces it with nothing.

For kids in Venezuela’s hard-scrabble areas, it used to be the dream: get noticed by a pro scout and leave the barrio behind for the Big Leagues. But try as they might to hang on to the dream, the crisis is wringing the hope out of a new generation of peloteros.

Suicides are spreading across Venezuela: the latest iteration of a comprehensive public health crisis. In the Andean state of Mérida, with its more reserved culture, the problem is at its worst.

Sabino Romero, son of the eponymous indigenous leader murdered in 2013, talks to CC about expropriated lands, State negligence and native employment rates.

The barriers to sending money to people in need in Venezuela seem overwhelming...until you get the hang of Crypto. Then it’s easy.

The report, Freedom On The Net, finds the internet mostly doesn’t work in Venezuela. And when it does, you get punished for using it.

The government has started shutting down the shelters set up in Bolívar, after 3,351 people were displaced by out-of-season flooding along the Orinoco. The thing is, people's homes are still under water, and the actual rainy season just started.

With Barrio Adentro Mission now handling 96% fewer patients than in its heyday and public hospitals no longer stocking even aspirine, Venezuela is on the verge of a Complex Humanitarian Emergency.

Today, Venezuela lost a giant. Teodoro Petkoff, who died today at the age of 86, morphed from communist guerrilla to conscience of the nation.

Each of the Venezuelan States has its own specific set of idiosyncrasies, their own very distinct way of communicating, eating, living and handling their affairs. Particular ghosts, monsters and creatures roam each region, as an army of dead that remind us of the violence, misery and dispair within each community.

When the leaders who signed the Punto Fijo Pact sat down to draft a governability agreement, they had no blueprint to work from. Behind them stretched 130 years of militarism, instability and chaos. Here's the story of how three men managed to cut the deal that made democracy possible in Venezuela for decades.

These days, if you're a news giant and you need to roll-out a brand new anti-censorship system, you know where you go first.

Comments are back, but different. We’re actively moderating them, under a new comments policy. It’s going to be way better this way.

When thugs roughed up María Corina Machado in Upata, the regime tried to blame the low level guys who carried out the orders. Let’s see how that’s working out for them.

Yesterday, Brazilians were called to choose between two catastrophes...not surprisingly, what they chose is a catastrophe.

In an interview with El Mundo, Lorent Saleh tells the story of the four years he spent behind bars in Venezuela. A dystopian tale that highlights the inhuman treatment that political prisoners are forced to endure in our county.

The government copied Pérez Bonalde and named it Plan Vuelta a la Patria. They caused the crisis that forced people to leave and now they offer a free service to get them back to Venezuela. The thing is, this journey is everything but poetic.

Through an independent project that started years ago, Héctor Torres and Albor Rodríguez reconcile and describe the realities of all Venezuelans, uniting us in our differences.

This week, a group of chavistas attacked María Corina Machado and her team in Bolívar State. We know that nothing scares chavistas more than a brilliant, courageous, educated woman who threatens to overthrow a dictatorship with conviction and the power of her ideas of prosperity, peace, democracy and a better future for Venezuelans.

For centuries, Native Venezuelan communities had been able to self-sustain. This has changed, they’ve become increasingly more dependent on the government, and it has brought all kinds of problems for the different indigenous ethnicities of Zulia, Delta Amacuro, Amazonas and Bolívar states.

We thought it’d be easier to get rid of him because “Maduro is no Chávez” and yet, five years later, there he is. “How’s he still there?” is the question on everyone's mind. The answer is painfully obvious.

Taking a few pages from the Cuban playbook, the Network of Articulation and Sociopolitical Action (Raas), picks up where the Ley Sapo left off. Big Brother and your next-door neighbors are watching.

As blackouts wreak havoc on the country once again, it’s hard to remember that Venezuela once had a stable and functional electric system. There’s nothing that decades of underinvestment and rampant corruption can’t destroy.