The celebration carried a different weight in a year shaped by relentless hostility against activists and political leaders. Despite the lack of anti-Maduro slogans, it still stood tall as a symbol of resilience and resistance
This town south of Lake Maracaibo is under the control of the National Liberation Army, or ELN. People are afraid to mention them even hundreds of kilometers away
What began as an anti-imperialist bromance between Chávez and Ahmadinejad evolved into a shadowy alliance, marked by criminal networks and shared schemes to hold onto power under pressure
More than half of the 238 deportees—130 of them—had no criminal record in the U.S. and were classified solely as immigration law violators, Homeland Security records show
In a year of global turbulence, our then-young democracy responded to conflict and fear by allowing an unprecedented (and peaceful) political transition
An unprecedented leak reveals how Siscom operates—a system through which Venezuela’s Ministry of Communication sends direct messaging lines to thousands of loyalists and bureaucrats
The regional and parliamentary election that the Maduro regime organized to turn the page on 28J had the opposite effect: laying out the landscape that emerged from the 2024 presidential election fraud
The Joker sent out selective invites for a lousy “mega election.” A few supposed adversaries made the guest list and others cry betrayal. Will attendance be worth it or does it make odd guests part of the act?
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