Mapping Quarantined Caracas
You may be able to force caraqueños to wear masks, but in a city where most people can’t afford to stay at home for days, it will be a paramount challenge to enforce a quarantine. Even for a dictatorship.
How the Blackout Changed Our Lives
It’s been a year since Venezuela entered a new unacceptable “normality” that gives you no other option but to adapt. These recounts are about trauma, lessons and decisions.
A Police Death Squad Reinforced with Criminals
In a recent investigation, Reuters exposed how FAES, the special forces unit that protects the regime with brute force, has officers with criminal records in its ranks.
HRW: Maduro Welcomes Illegal Gold Exploitation & Horrific Abuses
HRW has just expressed its concern about “amputations and other horrific abuses” by local armed groups and Colombian guerrillas in the Orinoco Mining Arc.
The Five-Year-Transformation of the National Assembly
2020 might be the stage for new parliamentary elections in which chavismo expects to revert the effects of MUD’s 2015 victory. In the meanwhile, harassment and coercion have scraped off the opposition majority.
A Piece of the Venezuela You Love
We are re-launching our Cinco8 + Caracas Chronicles store: new design, new products, all related to the nation we keep deep inside.
Voices from Inside Sebin
A documentary made by NGO 14 Lawyers exposes the repressive dynamics of the regime’s political police, its gruesome practices, harassment of human rights lawyers and even pride for being so cruel
The Making of a Public Enemy: Venezuelans in Peru
At least 860,000 Venezuelans are living in Peru, which amounts to 2.7 % of the population. But a few crimes linked to Venezuelans sparked a xenophobic outbreak.
The (New) End of Dialogue
The day after Guaidó confirmed he’s leaving Barbados, the regime announced a parallel negotiation with the opposition. The thing is, that’s neither a negotiation nor an opposition. What is it, then?
How Brutal Are Venezuelan Police Forces?
The Monitor for Lethal Force in Latin America published its first report, covering Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico and Venezuela. When it comes to executions, we’ve earned more medals than in the PanAm Games in Lima.
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