Jim Wyss has a shocking story in the Miami Herald about the sprawling state-sponsored human trafficking ring known as Barrio Adentro, and the Cuban doctors now getting stranded in Bogota as they try to flee indentured servitude in Venezuela. The stories the Cuban doctors tell tell read like the stories of Eritrean refugees trying to get…
Over the past week, with the story of El Pollo Carvajal’s Aruba narco-escapade, and reports of an obscene dollars-imports-military scam, we have come to understand what we’re up against in Venezuela: drug-trafficking generals. Leave it to a last minute blocking of a U.S. Senate bill to clear things up a little more: we’re actually facing drug-trafficking…
As the student protests continue, shocking stories of the detained are hitting social media and some news outlets. Detainees are not allowed to see their family members, some students have been beaten, shocked with electricity, doused with gasoline and threatened to be set on fire. There are personal accounts of detained students being stripped of their clothing…
BBC Mundo’s Daniel Pardo offers a chronicle of the funeral held last Friday for Juan Montoya, one of the three people killed by gunfire on Wednesday’s protest in Caracas. Montoya was a member of both the Libertador municipal police and a major player inside the colectivos, the government-supporting armed groups. Juancho (as he was known)…
Come to beautiful Venezuela, where you can enjoy… Unlawful killings, including summary executions of criminal suspects Widespread criminal kidnappings for ransom Prison violence and harsh prison conditions Inadequate juvenile detention centers Arbitrary arrests and detentions Corruption and impunity in police forces Corruption, inefficiency, and politicization in a judicial system characterized by trial delays and violations…
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