Six years after awarding Nicolás Maduro’s government for apparently reducing hunger in Venezuela, the UN agency for food security puts Venezuela in a list of countries in high-risk of facing a widespread food crisis.
An open, respectful letter to those people who decided it was right to occupy the Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C. to avoid National Assembly-appointed representatives to work there, by one Venezuelan who’s sincerely making the effort of understanding your point of view.
After Cristal Palacios shared with us her concept of “peace privilege” to explain the inability to understand Venezuela from the comfort of development, Manuel Llorens takes the cue to propose another dimension of the phenomenon: everyone tends to reduce the contemplation of pain.
Padrino López and Nicolás gave us memes for days when he declared “they tried to buy us off”. The New York Times is on to Tareck El Aissami. Leopoldo stood on the threshold of the Spanish ambassador’s residence and he said that, according to his calculations, the end of the usurpation is mere weeks away. Venezuelan scientist gets a Whitley Award.
May 1st gave Caracas a crowded chavista march and a constellation of anti-regime protests severely repressed. Four young Venezuelans have been killed so far since Tuesday morning. The unrest, again, is nationwide and people look determined to resist.
While some may say that the U.S. has been vehemently supporting democracy and human rights in our country, Venezuelans believe those considerations can be extended to regularize the migrant population in the U.S.
In areas of Caracas such as Santa Mónica in the south east, and El Paraíso in the west, neighbors have organized to resist on the street since April 30th, following Juan Guaidó’s instructions. This is how they took the upheaval of recent hours.
Venezuelans protested in every state on May 1st. Jurubith Rausseo was injured protesting in Altamira and died yesterday. She was the 55th protester who has died in 2019. Colectivos were in charge of repression. Several journalists were injured while covering the protests.
Guaidó shared a video on social media calling Venezuelans to return to the streets on May 1st. Nicolás taped his mandatory broadcast, mixing and changing yesterday’s details and plot. Russia, Cuba and the U.S. had their say in the start of Operation Freedom.
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