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Venezuelan Government Blames “Import Mafias” for Alleged Paper Shortage
January 29, 2014 ... buys paper at Bs 11/ kilo and sells it for Bs 45 to Bs 47... the case is being looked after by state security ... -
Delay in Leopoldo Lopez Trial Causes Unrest in Venezuela and Abroad
September 15, 2014 ... that 64 people had been detained following the protests; 47 people in Barquisimeto, and 17 in Caracas. Last May, ... -
FiveThirtyEight Gets it Wrong on Venezuela
April 11, 2014 Nate Silver, who became famous for his use of polling data to accurately project U.S. elections, launched a new blog – FiveThirtyEight.com last month. It’s been off to a rough start, Paul Krugman wrote soon after its launch, “[S]loppy and casual opining with a bit of data used, as the old saying goes, the way a drunkard uses a lamppost — for support, not illumination.” I leave it to the reader to decide whether the FiveThirtyEight article on March 17 by Dorothy Kronick on Venezuela fits this description. -
National Alternative Media Meeting and Venezuelan Government Agree on Steps Forward
January 21, 2014 ... with VTV, that television channels “broadcast over nine hours of soap operas per day”. It was proposed they be limited to four hours a day, in two blocks. The measure “supports ... -
Civilians Support Venezuelan National Guard amid Media False Claims
March 17, 2014 ... the “liberation and pacifying” of the area, a few hours after 661 GNB soldiers were deployed there. He said the guards will patrol 24 hours a day “in order to guarantee citizen safety”. ... -
State Plans for Prolonged El Niño-Related Drought in Venezuela
June 12, 2014 ... been one planned water service stoppage that lasted a few hours. The anti-government privately-owned press complained ... -
Mercal Shooting Highlights Class Polarization, Psychologists Fear “Fractured Coexistence”
April 4, 2014 ... of social event. Neighbors wait together from the early hours of the morning to buy large quantities of food at ... -
Interview with Luis Britto Garcia, “The Blockades have Reduced and the Opposition is Divided”
April 17, 2014 ... the street to “drain your rage”, and in the following hours they killed a dozen Bolivarians, injured eight, and ... -
Venezuela: The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted
April 10, 2014 After over a month of violence explicitly aimed at ousting the Maduro government, major media outlets and governments in the North Atlantic are blind to the bad faith of the opposition. -
What’s going on in Venezuela?
February 21, 2014 ... have televisions and things. In Caracas they only have 4 hours of electricity per day”. My response: I’ve just ... -
Does Venezuelan Television Provide Coverage That Opposes the Government?
February 24, 2014 ... the Carter Center notes, a ranking of AGB Nielsen for all hours during January-June 2013 found the state TV with just ... -
Understanding the Facts on Violence and Human Rights in Venezuela's Unrest
March 13, 2014 ... and pro-government activist Gisela Rubilar Figueroa (47) was shot by assailants while she tried to clear a ... -
Where is Venezuela’s Political Violence Coming From? A Complete List of Fatalities from the Disturbances
April 5, 2014 ... and pro-government activist Gisela Rubilar Figueroa (47) was shot by assailants while she tried to clear a ... -
Nobel Peace Laureates Slam Human Rights Watch's Refusal to Cut Ties to U.S. Government
July 10, 2014 In a May 12 letter, two Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and over 100 scholars, journalists and human rights activists called on Human Rights Watch to close its revolving door to the U.S. government. On June 3, HRW published a response from executive director Kenneth Roth on its website, arguing that their “concern is misplaced."