🚨 | URGENT: For those outside, this is what is happening right now in Venezuela: - The regime is kidnapping people from their homes for demonstrating against Maduro, for sharing discontent on social media, or for being electoral witnesses. - It's checking the phones of people

#3Ago 10:53 am | Quienes ya se concentran en la avenida principal de Las Mercedes entonan el himno nacional y consignas contra Nicolás Maduro. "No quiero bono, no quiero Clap, yo lo que quiero es que se vaya Nicolás", corean.

"Maduro has lost the streets’: in Venezuela’s barrios, former loyal voters risk all in protests" theguardian.com/world/article/…

We reviewed 23,000+ tally sheets collected by Venezuela’s opposition; extracted their data; matched them w/ physical copies in secret locations; interviewed poll watchers, experts, pro-gov observers… All this showed Edmundo González likely won twice as many votes as Maduro

“No reconocemos el triunfo autoproclamado de NM, no confiamos en la independencia e imparcialidad de instituciones venezolanas. No validaremos resultados que no hayan sido verificados por organismos internacionales", dice el presidente Gabriel Boric.

Venezuela’s military counterintelligence agency posted a chilling video this morning of María Oropeza, a young organizer for the opposition campaign who they arrested on Tuesday. Dozens of human rights defenders, journalists, and political activists have been rounded up so far.

"In Latin America since Pinochet's time there hasn't been a repressive crackdown of such magnitude as has happened in Venezuela" since the election, says Provea, a human-rights group elpais.com/america/2024-0… via EL PAÍS América

Venezuela: Scale and gravity of ongoing crimes demand urgent actions from ICC prosecutor amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Today’s autocrats not only overstate the positive (see Gueiev and Treisman’s great book, Spin Dictators); they also overbroadcast their terror. In Ven the govt wants everyone to know that repression is guaranteed, and that torture centers have plenty of room for more people.

It's still imposing terror. But it's also an advertisement for all to see that no one in the working-class neighborhood supports Maduro

Most European and US diplomats I spoke to don't think the mediation effort in Venezuela by Brazil, Colombia and Mexico will produce any tangible results, but it allows governments in Europe and North America to sidestep a problem that, most believe, probably has no solution 👇🧵

The interim report of the UN Panel of Electoral Experts on #Venezuela has been shared with the National Electoral Council. It can be accessed via the link below 👇 news.un.org/en/sites/news.…

All the Venezuelans protesting in hundreds of major cities all over the world today really shows the size of the diaspora Especially in comparison with the population of VZ- nearly 8 million abroad, more than 25% of VZ's total population

🇻🇪🇪🇸 | IMPRESIONANTE ¡Lleno total! Así se encuentra la Puerta del Sol de Madrid, en apoyo a María Corina Machado y a Edmundo González Urrutia.

Caracas.

Staggering piece of reportage, data viz & photography from a team at Bloomberg on the ruin that is Gaza. 42 million tonnes of rubble. As an historian specializing in *post-WW2 reconstruction* puts it: “Gaza is something never seen before in the history of urbanism.”

A month after the elections in Venezuela, things have deteriorated sharply in the country. A 🧵for those who have lost track of what's going on.

Grateful for this one for sure

🆕Insights from Colombia's massive regularisation of Venezuelan forced migrants Today on VoxDev, Sandra Rozo World Bank Research outlines the impact of Colombia's regularisation of forced migrants on labour markets, crime rates & more: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

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