Pretty Please, Mr. Mass Murderer, Could You Leave the Country, If It’s Not Too Much Trouble?
Colombia’s vicious ELN guerrilla kills Venezuelan soldiers...and Venezuela’s Defense Minister treats them like they’re the Godfather.
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Before Chávez, Eight Out of Nine Venezuelans Had Regular Access to Water. Today: One in Five
Despite the country’s huge freshwater reserves, only 18% of Venezuelans have regular access to water. Who doesn’t have trouble finding it? Mosquitoes... when the time comes to lay eggs.
Declawing Gaita: How Protest Music Disappeared from Zulia’s Airwaves
Venezuela’s Western state of Zulia has a long and proud tradition of protest music: gaiteros have always raised their voices against injustice. But under growing pressure from the government, radio stations no longer dare to air it.
The One about John Galt in Los Llanos
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Kejal Vyas and Carlos Becerra have a brutal, engrossing feature about what happens to a small community in Portuguesa, when the government seizes the assets of a big local employer, and replaces it with nothing.
Crisis Puts Little Leaguers’ Big Dreams Cruelly Out of Reach
For kids in Venezuela’s hard-scrabble areas, it used to be the dream: get noticed by a pro scout and leave the barrio behind for the Big Leagues. But try as they might to hang on to the dream, the crisis is wringing the hope out of a new generation of peloteros.
In Buttoned-Down Mérida, Despair Sets Off a Wave of Suicides
Suicides are spreading across Venezuela: the latest iteration of a comprehensive public health crisis. In the Andean state of Mérida, with its more reserved culture, the problem is at its worst.
Sabino Romero, the Chavista Yupka Chieftain Who Turned on the Revolution
Sabino Romero, son of the eponymous indigenous leader murdered in 2013, talks to CC about expropriated lands, State negligence and native employment rates.
The Venezuelan Digital Crackdown Gets An Emergency Call From Freedom House
The report, Freedom On The Net, finds the internet mostly doesn’t work in Venezuela. And when it does, you get punished for using it.
The Government Says Guayana's Floods Are Over, But the Rains Are Just Starting
The government has started shutting down the shelters set up in Bolívar, after 3,351 people were displaced by out-of-season flooding along the Orinoco. The thing is, people's homes are still under water, and the actual rainy season just started.
A Complex Emergency With a Simple Explanation
With Barrio Adentro Mission now handling 96% fewer patients than in its heyday and public hospitals no longer stocking even aspirine, Venezuela is on the verge of a Complex Humanitarian Emergency.
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