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The Local Dispatch #7: Stories of Stench and Contamination along the Maracaibo Lake

Pollution in Lake Maracaibo, six-month water cuts and post-election arrests.

Cristóbal Picón Ball November 8, 2024

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The Local Dispatch #6: A Ruthless Killing in the Apure-Táchira Border

A community leader killed in Táchira, dollar sales discounts and the downturn of the Bolívar ferrymen

Cristóbal Picón Ball October 31, 2024

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The Local Dispatch #5: Ongoing Crises at ULA and PDVSA’s Eastern Complex

Grave concerns over the state of ULA-Táchira, and a crackdown against PDVSA workers in the east feature in our fifth issue.

Cristóbal Picón Ball October 24, 2024

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Madurismo’s Most Dangerous Job Claims Another Victim

At a moment of dynastic consolidation, Maduro resorts to a power move against former oil chief Pedro Tellechea. Others before him fell from grace in different circumstances

Cristóbal Picón Ball October 23, 2024

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The Local Dispatch #4

This week’s Dispatch features the PDVSA blaze in Cabimas, indigenous displacement, and grave concerns in the domestic food industry

Cristóbal Picón Ball October 18, 2024

The Local Dispatch #3

In the third issue of The Local Dispatch, we feature Maduro's fractured Christmas bonus, rural Venezuela's antivenom crisis and flood displacements in Bolívar.

Cristóbal Picón Ball October 10, 2024

The Local Dispatch #2

In the second issue of The Local Dispatch, we feature the tragedy of pensioners, “WhatsApp crimes” and Sucre’s cocoa problem

Cristóbal Picón Ball October 4, 2024

The Local Dispatch #1

We're launching The Local Dispatch, a weekly digest of underreported news from deep inside Venezuela

Cristóbal Picón Ball September 26, 2024

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The Stifled Cry of La Vinotinto

Venezuela restarts its World Cup journey with fans and players impacted by politics. Many footballers have spoken out against Maduro's election fraud

Cristóbal Picón Ball September 5, 2024

“Actas”: the Key Documents at the Center of the Electoral Conflict

The opposition is focused on collecting voting tallies to prove, before the international community, that Maduro lost

Cristóbal Picón Ball July 29, 2024

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