The Chavista Habit of Breaking Lives for Propaganda
The three former police officers released last night after 23 years are the most eloquent example of how chavismo imprisons human beings to sustain a myth
Tag: Political prisoners
Who’s Next in Delcy’s Blacklist?
A string of grim cases and troubling “coincidences” has put Maduro’s extravagant inquisitor in the hot seat
The Chain of Command That Concealed Víctor Hugo Quero's Death
Those responsible for protecting his life failed completely and maintained, for months, a silence that defies explanation. Here they are fully identified
A Mother's 16-Month Search for a Son the State Had Already Buried
While his mother searched alone, complicity across Venezuela's security forces and judicial system concealed the fate of political prisoner Víctor Quero for 16 months
The State Said Víctor Quero Was Alive
The Rodríguez regime will demand praise for acknowledging the detention and death in prison of a man, and the bureaucratic torture of his 83-year-old mother
Repression in Venezuela Isn’t Gender-Neutral
Just when we get a first female ruler and a first Nobel prize to a female politician, women carry most of the burden of State terror
Hostage Politics Masquerading as Amnesty
After lots of pressure and little debate, an insufficient Amnesty Law was approved unanimously by Delcy's National Assembly
A Transition Under Whose Terms?
The recapture of Juan Pablo Guanipa exposes chavismo’s fixation on control and its refusal to tolerate disruptive behaviors
Juan Pablo Guanipa Tests the Delcy Regime
Juan Pablo Guanipa tested Delcy Rodríguez's political openness, and she failed
When Chavismo Whispers an Apology
The discussion of the Amnesty Law takes place while Venezuelans still have an open wound. Rodríguez brings old scars into the discussion
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