Deadly Raid Puts FAES Operations Under Scrutiny
A raid in Caracas where eight people were killed has put the spotlight on the special police group FAES. Along accusations of using excessive force, it has started to expand operations
A raid in Caracas where eight people were killed has put the spotlight on the special police group FAES. Along accusations of using excessive force, it has started to expand operations
Ortega Díaz is nothing but a reformed criminal, now cooperating with the good guys. Her reward for working with the opposition should be a lesser prison sentence, not a successful political career.
It doesn’t matter if you come to Venezuela often, for business or pleasure, every time you return you’ll see how everything gets harder, even the most basic errands. It’s like an obstacle race you can never win.
Out of dollars, the government tries to entice Venezuelans to bring their own.
Humanitarian crisis and large-scale human rights violations are usually enabled by insufficient response from the international community. Venezuela is no exception. Those who once behaved as the silent accomplices of the Venezuelan regime, are now struggling to handle the massive influx of immigrants determined to escape the country’s crisis.
A big story in The New York Times tries to show American connivance in a dastardly plot… and it just shows the utter uselessness of Venezuela’s military leadership.
In July, an Anthropology and Archeology congress that took place in Barquisimeto, brought together 106 Venezuelan and 40 international attendees. How was this accomplished? How did international speakers feel as they faced the country’s collapse?
Farmers mining bitcoin, pranes using digital traces to kidnap people, hackers in shantytowns at the service of the secret police, chieftains paying for bots, biopolitical control and a presidential assassination attempt using drones. My country is a bad sci-fi movie.
Long lines are back. They never left entirely, but they did become a rare sight. After Maduro’s paquetazo, panicked citizens are buying everything they can. Food, medicine, gas and cash are scarce, but fear and anguish are not.
On the same day that chavismo said that Venezuela was the second South American country welcoming more immigrants, Human Rights Watch published a report preaching the hard truth about the horrid Venezuelan migrants crisis.
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