08.15.15: One Billion Bolivares

EFE reported today that 720 Cuban doctors sent to Venezuela to work in the country’s poorest areas have fled into Colombia Continue reading →

06.30.15: Maria Lourdes Afiuni

Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz caused a stir yesterday at the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva yesterday when Continue reading →

05.07.15: Tourism

El Nacional reported today that although only four months have passed, Maduro has already used the entire travel budget allotted for Continue reading →

05.05.15: Cinco Heroes

Today, Maduro admitted for the first time since oil prices began their precipitous fall in the summer of 2014 that Continue reading →

05.01.15: “A Shameful Spectacle”

The parade in Caracas to commemorate International Worker’s Day got underway today at around 12:30 PM. At the end of the Continue reading →

04.30.15: Lorenzo Mendoza

The president of Polar Enterprises, Lorenzo Mendoza, published an open letter to Maduro today, and argued that despite Maduro’s repeated assertions, Continue reading →

04.19.15: Child’s Play

Maduro oversaw the hand-over of subsidized apartments in Catia, Caracas today, and claimed that the Gran Mision Vivienda has now officially built 700,000 Continue reading →

04.12.15: The Summit

Maduro met briefly with U.S. President Barack Obama during the Summit of the Americas in Panama yesterday. Maduro said that Continue reading →