On the afternoon of 7 March 2019, the electricity supply was cut off in more than 80% of Venezuela. This blackout was the highest point in a decade long electricity crisis, a collapse that industry workers had warned about for years, despite government attempts to completely silence their reports
Political prisoner Rodney Álvarez has been arbitrarily jailed eight years without a trial, as a working class hostage of the chavista government
Mora’s son claims that pressure from paramilitary groups have forced him into exile, where he still demands justice for his disappeared father and the Vergel brothers
The route of the mining extractive industry in Venezuela (2014-2017)
For José Bodas, general secretary of the Unitary Federation of Oil Workers (FUTPV), the scarcity of gasoline is a consequence of the state of disaster of our refineries.
Despite policy advancements, Chavismo's reverence of women as mothers and caregivers may operate as a control mechanism, argues sociologist Anais D. López Caldera.
Simón Rodríguez explains why Venezuela is "caught between imperialism and a decomposing bourgeois regime", and the way forward.
Alí Domínguez, a youth political leader from the Chavismo dissidence, died in the early hours of the 6th of March.
Simón Rodriguez: "Clearly, Venezuela is a capitalist society with a truly abysmal social gap between the bourgeoisie and the working class."
Edgardo Lander talks about the "difficult situation for people in the left in Venezuela", rejecting Maduro's authoritarian government while fearing imperial intervention.
Venezuelan Voices 