Why COVID-19 Numbers Stay So Low in Venezuela
Almost one year after the start of the pandemic, Venezuela reports remarkably lower figures than its neighbours, but that’s due to the government’s unwillingness to scale up diagnosis
Why Is Maduro Harassing Venezuelan NGOs?
Maduro’s dictatorship started 2021 with an increased persecution of independent journalists and the criminalization of humanitarian aid workers and human rights activists. The reasons answer to its strategic reality, part of the script for all autocracies
The Living Portrait of a Dying Town
In Once Upon a Time in Venezuela, Venezuelan filmmaker Anabel Rodríguez Ríos shows the lives of the people affected by the gradual disappearance of Congo Mirador, a water town in Zulia state
Navalny Is No Mirror for the Venezuelan Opposition
The Russian politician, who survived a poisoning attempt last summer, has just returned to Russia, knowingly facing imminent imprisonment. He can be seen from afar as some kind of Guaidó, but his path and methods are different
A Flank Attack Upon the Press
New tactics and coordinated actions are the battle cry of a renewed offensive against free media in Venezuela
‘I’m the law here’
Maduro's Assembly wants to detain Guaidó; every speech from Maduro is now a mandatory broadcast; PDVSA paralyzed El Palito and Cardón refineries; Maduro was upset because YouTube censored VTV’s account because they posted about their medicine, Carvativir.
