Venezuela

From a soap opera to cyberattacks: The unexpected connection between North Macedonia and Venezuela

Written by Estefanía Salazar, Filip Stojanovski

7 February 2025

Where is Carlos Correa? Unidentified men take Venezuelan activist away from the middle of Caracas

Written by Estefanía Salazar

9 January 2025

Internet outages and blocks in Latin America in 2024

Written by Jacobo Nájera Translated (en) by Dalia Tarek

3 January 2025

How the UN Cybercrime Convention 2023 can pose a threat to human rights defenders and exiled journalists

Written by Guest Contributor

30 December 2024

Stories about Venezuela

We demand the immediate release of Venezuelan human rights defender Carlos Correa

Global Voices Advox and more than 80 signatories demand the release of human rights defender Carlos Correa

Written by Melissa Vida

11 January 2025

Bukele boasts of his government's successes amid allegations of an attack on press freedom.

Pro-Bukelism is amplified in social networks.

Written by ProBox Translated (en) by Dalia Tarek

8 November 2024

Latin America: Uncovering the hidden human workforce behind AI

AI platform ‘ghost work’ is another form of labor exploitation

Written by Distintas Latitudes Translated (en) by Laura

5 October 2024

Operation Knock Knock: On the hunt for dissident voices in Venezuela

Venezuelan security forces target dissident voices in an operation informally called Operation Knock Knock

Written by ProBox

12 September 2024

VenApp, the Chavista app co-opted for harassment in Venezuela

The app was boycotted and reported after the presidential election

Written by ProBox

11 September 2024

What online narratives tell us about the aftermath of the election in Venezuela

We delve into two narratives forging the current political climate in Venezuela a month after the 2024 presidential elections.

Written by Civic Media Observatory

30 August 2024

Venezuelans use AI avatars and Instagram Live to fight back Maduro's repression

Journalists and activists do everything they can to keep the information flowing

Written by Gabriela Mesones Rojo

19 August 2024

Post-election repression in Venezuela: Authorities target human rights defenders and humanitarian workers

Venezuelan NGOs report more than 1,000 arbitrary detentions

Written by Estefanía Salazar, Gabriela Mesones Rojo Translated (en) by Melissa Vida

9 August 2024

From discredit to censorship: When power attacks the Latin American press

Without a free press there can be no democracy

Written by Connectas Translated (en) by Ameya Nagarajan

29 March 2024

Online attacks on presidential candidates in Venezuela have a distinct gendered angle, study shows

Gender-tinged attacks against men candidates were also seen

Written by ProBox

25 January 2024

Digging into the reality of internet shutdowns in Latin America: An insidious threat

Internet access in Latin America has become a weapon for authoritarian regimes

Written by IFEX

24 December 2023

Unfreedom Monitor Report: Venezuela

An excerpt from Advox research on digital authoritarianism in Venezuela

Written by Advox

25 May 2023

Venezuelan authorities spied on 20% of major telecom's clients

Telefónica's report was a gamechanger for digital rights activists in Venezuela

Written by Gabriela Mesones Rojo

17 March 2023

How the Venezuelan government uses social media to cover up its biggest corruption case

It highlights the fundamental role of digital media in Maduro's propaganda machine

Written by Gabriela Mesones Rojo

8 December 2022

Advocacy groups in the Americas focus on tackling rising surveillance technology

Surveillance technology is often sold as the end-all solution to fight crime

Written by IFEX

5 August 2022

Access the Unfreedom Monitor database

The relational database of the Unfreedom Monitor research

Written by Advox

14 July 2022

What does Elon Musk's Twitter purchase mean for Venezuelan Twitter?

Venezuela's Twitter space is rife with inorganic content, something Musk has not contended with

Written by Caracas Chronicles

7 May 2022

Why is Twitter blocking state accounts in Venezuela?

Blocking public speech could contribute to the information crisis.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle

3 May 2019

Venezuela's political crisis is intensifying and censorship is on the rise

Venezuela has set a new "record in censorship" for itself.

Written by Laura Vidal

2 May 2019

Welcome to the Venezuelan internet. Luis Carlos and Naky will be your guides.

Meet Venezuela's internet power couple.

Written by Laura Vidal

26 March 2019

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