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Caracas, October 22, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Students from the Venezuelan Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE) have staged multiple demonstrations in recent days to press for solutions to infrastructural and administrative issues. Students from the UNEARTE branch in Maracay, Aragua State, blocked a…
Richard Grenell failed to become Trump’s man in Caracas. A fresh scandal threatens him, just after the White House fired two of his friends
Nine months after the US’ January 3 military strikes and kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelanalysis team got together to take stock of a whirlwind of changes in Caracas’ domestic and foreign policies. Lead editor Ricardo Vaz was joined by fellow staff members Jessica Dos Santos, Silvana…
“El año en que se perdió el miedo al poder” retells a pivotal moment in our history, or a 90-year-old reflection of current events
Mérida, October 20, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela held its second National Popular Consultation of the year on Sunday, October 18, as voters chose local projects to receive state funding. Organized by communes and communal circuits within the Ministry for Communes and supported by the National Electoral…
Between smiles and a handshake, Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez thanked US President Donald Trump for “supporting the country’s return to multilateral forums,” following a face-to-face meeting on September 22 that she called “historic.” In her address before the UN General Assembly one day later, Rodríguez…
Caracas, October 19, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) has lifted “precautionary asset freezes” against Marleny Contreras, wife of Venezuelan Interior, Justice, and Peace Minister Diosdado Cabello, and United Socialist Party (PSUV) lawmaker Jorge Arreaza. The…
Since sudden and sweeping change did not arrive, we should learn to navigate the costs and uncertainties of a process we have no choice but to influence
Alexander Lovera is a founding member and spokesperson of the El Sur Existe Commune in Valencia, Carabobo State. A former student leader and participant of the MBR-200 revolutionary movement, he now focuses on urban planning and social property enterprises. In this interview, Lovera discusses the El Sur Existe…
1. In the preparatory notes for his Book of Passages, Walter Benjamin referred to the overcoming of the concepts of decadence and progress as two sides of the same coin. As for the latter, his critique was directed specifically at the “bourgeois way of thinking.” Under its influence, the concept of progress “lost many…
Our beloved capybara can tell us a lot about how we use humor to process constant change
Mérida, October 16, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores have rejected a new indictment amid an ongoing prosecution by the US government. I reject this document in its entirety,” Maduro told New York Judge Alvin Hellerstein in a hearing on Thursday. Similarly…
The long wait for Venezuelan voters could expose the calculations of different actors
The State deprived a former governor of medical care despite clear warning signs
This is ultimately a game of incentives. Players must create the right ones to sustain the institutional rebuild
The current Constitution grants the highest court so much power that its renewal must now be the top priority