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Marco Aponte-Moreno and Lance Lattig, The Conversation

Venezuela amps up media repression by sentencing newspaper publisher to prison

An old defamation case was resurrected just two days after Correo del Caroni reported on the alleged involvement of state security forces in a massacre.

Marco Aponte-Moreno and Lance Lattig, The Conversation
· Apr 03, 2016 · 11:30 pm
The jailed opposition leader who might hold the key to Venezuela's future

Using a smuggled mobile phone, an imprisoned opposition leader has summoned the people of Venezuela to the streets again. Could it bring down Maduro?

Marco Aponte-Moreno and Lance Lattig, The Conversation
· May 29, 2015 · 04:30 pm
As crisis in Venezuela deepens, Maduro's iron fist tightens

With opposition leaders in jail and an economy in tatters, Venezuela could be just around the corner from a formal state of emergency.

Marco Aponte-Moreno and Lance Lattig, The Conversation
· Mar 08, 2015 · 12:30 pm