🇻🇪 .Committee to Protect Journalists and 27 other press freedom organizations demand the immediate release of journalist Carlos Correa, director of Espacio Público who was forcibly disappeared on January 7 in Caracas. The Venezuelan government must ensure his safe and sound return. 👇

#TitularesMierc8Ene #AbreConVPN #CombateLaCensura Organizaciones internacionales exigen liberación de Carlos Correa efectococuyo.com/la-humanidad/o…

Extremely grim news out of Venezuela. Opposition leader María Corina Machado's party says she was violently intercepted leaving a protest march. I would watch closely what Trump says over the next hours, if anything, for signals of his Venezuela policy. x.com/DarvinsonRojas…

#Internacional | #Canadá reconoce a Edmundo González Urrutia como presidente electo de #Venezuela cutt.ly/we2hwPSZ

Exigimos al Estado venezolano y a todas las autoridades le garanticen a Carlos sus derechos fundamentales, respeto a su integridad física, salud y liberación inmediata | #13ene #DóndeEstáCarlosCorrea #LiberenACarlosCorrea

NY Times columnist calls for the US to remove Maduro "by force" if necessary. nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opi…

Finally, some good news from Venezuela. The Maduro regime has released press freedom activist Carlos Correa, who was abducted by masked men and had gone missing for 9 days efectococuyo.com/la-humanidad/e…

Here's my NPR profile of Colombian conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada. He got his start by breakign the antenna off the family TV so he'd have a baton to conduct imaginary orchestras. Now, he's a superstar. npr.org/2025/01/26/nx-…

“Maduro has no problem accepting migrants. He just wants something in return,” said Caracas-based analyst Phil Gunson of the International Crisis Group. So not rescinding the Chevron license “would be like a Christmas present” for Maduro. wsj.com/world/americas…

Iván Velásquez resigned as Colombia's defense minister. In Americas Quarterly I outlined his problems. Key quote "It's dangerous to have a defense minister with no knowledge of security who then gets rid of most of the military’s capacity to fight crime" americasquarterly.org/article/ivan-v…

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Trump’s plan for mass deportations faces a new hurdle: The Venezuelan government has privately warned the administration that it won’t accept migrants after the White House rescinded Chevron’s license to pump oil there, The Wall Street Journal reports. wsj.com/world/americas…

Venezuela's main opposition leader is calling for a boycott of regional elections on Sunday. But the oppo will have to mobilize soon if they want to stop Maduro's plan to rewrite the consitution along the lines of totalitarian Cuba npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-…

On Monday we profiled the Guanipa brothers, the Venezuelan political clan torn apart by the dictatorship, with one bro in jail and 2 others feuding about whether to take part in Sunday's election. Today, a 2nd brother, Juan Pablo, was jailed. npr.org/2025/05/16/nx-…

Here's my NPR report on ex-Colombian soldiers accused of war crimes who are trying to make amends by helping to exhume the remains of their victims npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-…

Doña Violeta Barrios de Chamorro vive en el corazón de los nicaragüenses

Going to school in Peru means going up against criminal gangs. They extract exortion payments from hundreds of schools by threatening to bomb them and kill their teachers. Here's my All Things Considered report npr.org/2025/07/07/g-s…

What a bummer. Such a beautiful hotel. miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…

Here's our CPJ Américas invstigation into how and why muckraking Peruvian journalist Gastón Medina - who made many enemies for denouncing government corruption - was gunned down in January. cpj.org/2025/07/peruvi…

#PERU El periodista peruano Gastón Medina fue asesinado a tiros el 20 de enero en la ciudad de Ica, en el centro-sur del país, y a pesar de la detención del presunto autor material, la policía aún desconoce quién contrató al grupo de sicarios. El Committee to Protect Journalists y IPYS viajaron a