David Smilde on Monica Spear’s Murder and Citizen Security in Venezuela
Listen to my interview with Ian Masters regarding the Monica Spear murder and citizen security in Venezuela. It ran last night on his program Background Briefing.
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Jan 8, 2014 | Multimedia, Podcast
Listen to my interview with Ian Masters regarding the Monica Spear murder and citizen security in Venezuela. It ran last night on his program Background Briefing.
Read MoreIn our previous post we asked who gets the blame for crime in Venezuela. In this one we ask what...
Read MoreIn the first half of this year we ran a series describing Venezuela’s comprehensive efforts at...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Sep 6, 2013 | Analysis
The Venezuelan military’s role as perpetrator of violence continues to make news. In a press release put out on August 8, human rights group Provea pointed out that from May to July Venezeula’s armed forces were involved in at...
Read MoreVenezuela’s Jesuit Centro Gumilla recently published an article denouncing that the Plan Patria Segura (Secure Homeland Plan) is being used to round up undocumented immigrants in poor barrios of Caracas and eventually deport...
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