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The circumstances of this interview are peculiar. On 17th June, Lester Toledo, the Venezuelan government’s international coordinator for Humanitarian Aid, wrote to me on Twitter to interview him in Cucuta. I responded to him that I…
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Recently, a dear friend said to me, “the problem is not the regime. It is the system." I agree. The problem is the system. Once you are a part of the system, it corrupts you. The system compels you to compromise your principles. It…
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Can a party, whose primary aspiration is precisely to abolish the democratic system, participate in and develop the system? Should the PSUV be outlawed? Several intellectuals and activists answer the question Many have proposed, not…
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The negotiations in Norway have triggered aversion. The information has been handled irresponsibly, similar to the experience of the Dominican Republic in 2016, in the time of the pre-dialogue. On the 23rd of January earlier this…
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What is "social justice"? The question is worth asking because anyone on the street you encounter who supports Chavez and his legacy in Venezuela, even the most untidy one, would tell you that the Bolivarian Revolution brought social…
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Elliott Abrams, the United States envoy to Venezuela, has surrendered: "I do not think Europe, Latin America, Canada and the United States are thinking, at this moment, of a military reaction." It was his response to concern about whether…
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In the midst of the greatest humanitarian crisis the Western Hemisphere has suffered, despite an increasingly anti-Maduro Venezuelan population, the Cuba-Venezuela alignment of Communist dictatorships today, more than ever, seems immovable.…
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"In Venezuela, we have an organized structure that is committing crimes against humanity. We have to find appropriate responses...The irresponsible response to the situation in Venezuela is 'hands off.' Venezuela needs all hands on deck.…
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No one can say that she isn't brave. The mere fact that she is sitting here, for an interview, without knowing what we are going to talk about, demonstrates that. And in 2017, without a doubt, she dealt one of the most lethal blows to the…
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Fifty hours with no electricity in the entire country, for three consecutive nights, Venezuela has been in the dark. It's a tragedy. And that's because people die. There's no electricity in hospitals. According to…
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The Cuban regime will use everything it has at its disposal so that the regime of the Bolivarian Revolution, which is going through its worst moment in history, can withstand the sieges of an opposition strengthened around President Juan…
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Today he is a human rights activist: founder of the organization Operation Freedom and winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament in 2017. He spent two years and three months in the coldest, most…
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