It’s a currency that doesn’t exist, and it’s illegal for the U.S., but when chavismo makes it mandatory to pay for intellectual property in petros, how can international clients protect their work without getting accused of a crime?
Organizations and people who defend human rights, activists and promoters of Non-Violence and Peace, conscientious objectors and anti-militarists, who take action in Venezuela, address this open letter to the world, sharingtheir opinion about the conflict which is currently unfolding in Venezuela.
Venezuelans protested in 69 towns. Humanitarian aid will enter the country on February, 23rd and Guaidó keeps encouraging citizens to register as volunteers. Maduro sounded even more lost and confused in his speech than in the BBC interview, and that’s saying something.
2019’s protests have unfolded in a rather peaceful and predictable manner. The plot twist nobody expected today was a direct command to the Armed Forces from the caretaker president, for what might be the key moment of this struggle.
One batch of humanitarian aid has been in the country for a few weeks and started being distributed to vulnerable Venezuelans, Elvis Amoroso announced he’s iinvestigating Guaidó, because he’s, you know, super qualified to point fingers. Today, we’re going back to the streets.
In 1918 this influenza pandemic wiped out the world. In Venezuela, it found a vulnerable country with irresponsible leaders, that hid away until the disease mysteriously faded out in early 1919. A hundred years have passed, but the country hasn’t changed that much.
As the propaganda apparatus insists that there’s no humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, now it’s spreading panic about the content of the relief cargoes.
Around 90,000 people complied with Guaidó’s call for volunteers and registered on the VoluntariosXVenezuela website. Maduro keeps showcasing our military power in laughable videos on social media. Regular government spokespeople are erratic and incoherent.
Desiré Cumare, a nurse from Maracao, at the southwestern tip of Caracas, saw how the regime’s death squad killed his son kicking his head, “just because we can”. They also sacked the apartment. “It’s a war on us.”
Virgilio Jiménez was detained during a demonstration, in November 2017. On February 5th, he died in jail due to an infection he would've recovered from if he hadn't been severely malnourished. He’s the 12th Venezuelan inmate to die in such circumstances in 2019, and in the same state: Lara.
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