Hugo Pérez Hernáiz is a Venezuelan sociologist and translator. He has taught at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
On Monday February 1, officials of the government’s media watch dog Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones (CONATEL) visited the offices of the private television channel Globovision. According to leading Globovision journalist Vladimir Villegas, the officials asked...
On January 23, President Maduro established a new organizational body for the Bolivarian Revolution: the Congress of the Fatherland (Congreso de la Patria). According to the government’s news agency Agencia Venezolana de Noticias: This body has the objective of...
Deep divisions within the opposition came to the fore over the Christmas break, fueled by a polemical interview with opposition leader Henrique Capriles Radonski published on December 23. Capriles hinted that the priority for the new opposition dominated National...
The opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) held a press conference on December 22 to denounce that Venezuela’s highest court, the Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ), had received a petition by the ruling party PSUV to challenge 22 of the MUD deputies...
Venezuela’s outgoing National Assembly, still dominated by the Socialist Party (PSUV), has sworn in Judge Susana Virginia Barreiros Rodríguez as the new General Public Defender. Barreiros presided over the trial of Leopoldo López and for his alleged role in the...
Following the announcement of the first election results on December 6, Venezolana de Televisión (VTV) broadcast live from the MUD’s headquarters to hear declarations by opposition deputy-elect Henry Ramos Allup. Asked by a reporter about the agenda of the new...
Government and pro-government forces have been reacting to Sunday’s adverse elections results. Comments have ranged from the self-critical to the blaming of an “economic war” waged by the opposition. The first reaction came from President Maduro himself. Right after...
On November 3 the pro-government (PSUV) majority of the National Assembly approved a resolution formally requesting the government “create a commission of legal experts” in order to file suit against university professors “for damages to the Venezuelan state” (The...
The “consultation period” for comments and proposals to the draft of the new National Human Rights Plan 2015-2019 expired on October 15 after a brief extension. State media reports that the government has held 64 consultations in all 23 states and the Capital...
Over 100 police officers have been killed just in Caracas so far in 2015. However, in the last week of September violence against police officers in Venezuela took on new dimensions with five grenade attacks in three days. The most brazen was an attack on the Baruta...