The Local Dispatch #10: Mérida Faces Poisonings as Chavismo Takes Aim at TikTok
National patient count reaches 800, but the official narrative blaming social media is under scrutiny.
The Local Dispatch #9: Margariteños at the Verge
The PDVSA explosion in Monagas has plunged Margarita into 20-hour blackouts, while families of post-electoral detainees demand answers and mass releases
The Local Dispatch #8: A Trip Down San Felipe’s Past and Present
We also feature the latest, consequential explosion in PDVSA facilities and the intoxication of at least 179 people in Portuguesa and Barinas schools
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.
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
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.
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
The Local Dispatch #4
This week’s Dispatch features the PDVSA blaze in Cabimas, indigenous displacement, and grave concerns in the domestic food industry
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.
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
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