Making repression backfire, but is it ethical?
Over at Foreign Policy, Srdja Popovic (of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies, or CANVAS) and Mladen Joksic discuss how to turn repression into a strength,...
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Dangerous games
“The Venezuelan geographical space is an area of peace. No foreign power or coalition may establish foreign military bases nor any other kind of military-purpose installations.” That is...
State of Surveilance
Beyond the never ending tear gas and rubber buckshot, it turns out the security forces have a second line of defense against the protests. Both the National Guard...
Notes on the Venezuelan Media Blackout
In a recent nationwide broadcast of a Peace Summit between the Government and some opposition people (none of the actors involved in the current crisis attended), Venevisión’s Carlos...
Sanity from the Prosecutor General
In a rare bout of justice, Venezuela’s Prosecutor General has charged five government intelligence agents with the murder of two people on February 12th. The two people in...
Secret Service Chronicles
The government has decided to create a brand new security agency, which will be specially dedicated to protect… only high-ranking members of the Venezuelan State. The Special Protection...
A Word on Blogs and Pogroms (UPDATED)
If, as the old cliché has it, “journalism is the first draft of history”, then blogging must be the note hurriedly scribbled on the napkin of history. A...
Taming the shadow
These tumultuous days, as I was glued to Twitter, reading Facebook comments, listening to opinions on the street, and watching the students debate on CNNE, I finally “understood”...
The ongoing war on journalists
Much has been said about the enormous pressure the government has applied on both domestic and foreign media in the current crisis, but that’s not the entire story. Many...
The other side of Communicational Hegemony
Foreign observers have a hard time grasping how aggressively defamatory government propaganda in Venezuela can be. It is forced through all radio and TV outlets in compulsory, simultaneous broadcasts of indefinite duration.
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