A Song for the Fallen
With no political parties involved, society summoned a “March for the Fallen” last Wednesday. We mourned the dead, the few of us who showed up.
With no political parties involved, society summoned a “March for the Fallen” last Wednesday. We mourned the dead, the few of us who showed up.
Your daily briefing for Thursday, August 31, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
For five years, Gustavo Hernández Acevedo has been minutely tracking each new attack on Venezuela's free press. Yesterday, for Deutsche Welle, he stood back to survey the wreckage.
The people who asked for my vote in 2015 so that they could hold sessions in Parliament are no longer holding sessions in Parliament because they want to ask for my vote.
Your daily briefing for Wednesday, August 30, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
In an exceptionally lucid and harrowing piece in The Observer, Emma Graham-Harrison introduces us to the Venezuelan teenagers turning to prostitution to stave off hunger.
Venezuelans tend to think we are the first cases of everything, but I’m not even the first to experience repression in my family. This is how my great-grandpa lived it – and won.
With the defenestrated Luisa Ortega Diaz traipsing around South America giving speeches denouncing government corruption, the opposition base still can’t seem to make up its mind about what to think of her.
Your daily briefing for Tuesday, August 29, 2017. Translated by Javier Liendo.
The government has already begun to retroactively blame Friday’s U.S. Sanctions for problems it caused years ago.
We’ve been able to hang on for 21 years in one of the craziest media landscapes in the world. We’ve seen different media outlets in Venezuela (and abroad) closing shop, something we’re looking to avoid at all costs. Your collaboration goes a long way in helping us weather the storm.
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