Local Perceptions of Venezuela’s Operación Liberación del Pueblo
Venezuela is one of the most violent countries in the world, with a homicide rate of at leaset 59...
Read MoreJan 25, 2017 | Analysis
Venezuela is one of the most violent countries in the world, with a homicide rate of at leaset 59...
Read MoreJan 2, 2017 | Analysis
It would be great to be able to look forward to a better 2017. Unfortunately, in Venezuela as in...
Read MoreDec 11, 2016 | Analysis
In October the National Assembly (AN) approved in second discussion, a reform of the Ley Orgánica...
Read MoreSep 20, 2016 | Analysis
Figure produced by FUNDEPRO, charting the deaths of security forces in Venezuela from 2012-2015...
Read MoreJul 4, 2016 | Analysis
Questions added to Datanálisis Omnibus poll, fieldwork May 18-25, 2016, N = 1000, error +/- 3% ...
Read MoreJul 1, 2016 | Analysis
The single most quoted estimate for Venezuela’s 2015 violent death rate has been the Venezuelan Violence Observatory’s astronomical figure of 90 per 100,000. However, political scientist Dorothy Kronick, using data from...
Read MoreApr 18, 2016 | Analysis
On April 4th Human Rights Watch and PROVEA released a report on Venezuela’s most recent security initiative, Operation Liberation and Protection of the People (hereafter referred to as OLP). The report is entitled “Power without...
Read MoreApr 4, 2016 | Analysis
[The following is a translated and edited version of a presentation I gave to an ad hoc, off-the-record discussion group last week in Caracas. The first 650 words or so are rather academic. If you want more Venezuela-specific...
Read MoreFeb 7, 2016 | Analysis
A picture of Hugo Chávez saluting Simón Bolívar that hangs on a wall in the National Security...
Read MoreFeb 4, 2016 | Analysis
Venezuela’s Attorney General is getting some deserved applause for actually providing the AN with homicide statistics for 2015, something that has not happened in years. She said there had been 17,788 murders in 2015 putting the...
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