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Maria Corina Machado Gets a Beating, Maduro’s Credibility a Mauling
When thugs roughed up María Corina Machado in Upata, the regime tried to blame the low level guys who carried out the orders. Let’s see how that’s working out for them.
Bordering Fascism
Yesterday, Brazilians were called to choose between two catastrophes...not surprisingly, what they chose is a catastrophe.
The Sadness of Coming Back Home on a Plan Vuelta a la Patria Plane
The government copied Pérez Bonalde and named it Plan Vuelta a la Patria. They caused the crisis that forced people to leave and now they offer a free service to get them back to Venezuela. The thing is, this journey is everything but poetic.
La Vida de Nos Makes Venezuelans Make Sense Too
Through an independent project that started years ago, Héctor Torres and Albor Rodríguez reconcile and describe the realities of all Venezuelans, uniting us in our differences.
Gender-Based Political Violence Against María Corina Machado’s Commitment and Resilience
This week, a group of chavistas attacked María Corina Machado and her team in Bolívar State. We know that nothing scares chavistas more than a brilliant, courageous, educated woman who threatens to overthrow a dictatorship with conviction and the power of her ideas of prosperity, peace, democracy and a better future for Venezuelans.
Indigenous People’s Health and Traditions Threatened by CLAP and Mining
For centuries, Native Venezuelan communities had been able to self-sustain. This has changed, they’ve become increasingly more dependent on the government, and it has brought all kinds of problems for the different indigenous ethnicities of Zulia, Delta Amacuro, Amazonas and Bolívar states.
Ghoul Nation Part III: Monsters from the Far West
In Western Venezuela, monsters, spirits and ghosts abound. Some of them roam our land to escape oblivion, keep trespassers at bay and communicate with the nature around them and protect it.
Nobody Knows Why Saleh Was Released (But We Can Guess)
Lorent Saleh is a rebel who didn’t need political parties, he fought cops and claimed he’d use snipers. No one backed him up then, and nobody knows why he’s out of jail. Or do we?
Venezuelan Doctors Sail Away to Help in a Very Political Humanitarian Mission
12 Venezuelan doctors residing in the United States volunteered for the USNS Comfort’s journey to South America, hoping to help some of their compatriots flooding the region, in a humanitarian mission labeled by the Venezuelan government as a disguised invasion plot.
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