Hugo Pérez Hernáiz is a Venezuelan sociologist and translator. He has taught at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
Students walk through the Universidad Central de Venezuela. ©Rodrigo Romero (This is the first of a series of posts in which we will examine different aspects of Venezuela’s higher education system. Read our previous post on this topic here and here.) It’s not often...
Political prisoners receive lecture before being released. On June 13 after the third round of releases of political prisoners by the government, Delcy Rodríguez (then president of the Constitutive Assembly, Venezuela’s Vice-president since June 14), announced that...
[After two weeks of vacation I asked friend-of-the-blog Hugo Pérez Hernáiz, to help me get on top of the new context after the May 20 presidential elections. Last Thursday we reviewed ten important post-20M analyses. Today we are going to review five ongoing issues we are watching. -DS].
[After two weeks of vacation I asked friend-of-the-blog Hugo Pérez Hernáiz, to help me get on top of the new context after the May 20 presidential elections. Of course I watched the news out of the corner of my eye during the past two weeks, but did not spend time...
This fall, alarms have been going off about the high number of students dropping out of universities around the country. The economic crisis and the policies of the Venezuelan government have forced both university students and professors to either search for jobs...
The most important move in Nicolás Maduro’s January 4 cabinet reshuffle was the naming of hardline Aragua governor Tarek El Aissami as Vice President. The most important move in the days following was the creation of a new government body called Special Anti-Coup...
Since early November, when we last covered the dialogue between government and opposition, the Vatican-sponsored initiative has been all but suspended among mutual accusations that the agreements reached at the first round of meetings have not been honored. The next...
This week a ruling by the Constitutional Chamber of Venezuela’s highest court, the Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ) generated criticism as it regulated the right to manifestation. Article 68 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela states that...
Venezuelan political leaders and analysts reacted quickly to the United States’ election results. Both government and opposition cautiously congratulated the winner Donald Trump in official press releases. In unofficial declarations government leaders were critical of...
On November 1 Venezuela’s human rights record was under scrutiny at the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva. The review was part of the second cycle of UPR sessions. Venezuela was previously evaluated in October 2011. The government delegation...