In a meeting chavistas requested at the Interamerican Human Rights Commision, Gocho activists watched the government delegation’s faces contort with rage as they realized the official truth wouldn’t go unchallenged.
The Wall Street Journal correspondent is leaving the country after five years. His last story from Venezuela is about the collapse of the oil industry in Lake Maracaibo and what it means for oil workers there. He says he’ll miss the Venezuelan people, just not as much as we’ll miss him.
Dollarization won’t be decreed by an economist wearing a suit from a podium in Caracas. It's going to come when taxi drivers figure out how dollars can “hacer su agosto, Navidad and Carnavales” all in one go.
A Metro employee was fired because he complained on social media his salary wasn’t enough to buy detergent so he could wash his uniform. Others don’t show up for work, others quit to hawk coffee out of a thermos. Are we nearing the end of the Metro?
For the second year running, Monsignor Antonio López Castillo gave a tough message to hundreds of thousands of Guaros. This year, though, the government has that Hate Law to threaten him with.
She was a household name, and one of Venezuela's most respected journalists, with a 17-year track record of achievement at Globovisión. The mistake that got her fired? Talking candidly about what happened on Monday.
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