Venezuela documents by Year:
Caracas full of uncertainty for journalists covering Venezuela crisis
May 15, 2019 10:50 AM ET
A year after disputed national elections in Venezuela, and with access to information growing ever-scarcer, the country remains in a political and economic crisis. Conditions for the press have deteriorated further since January, when Juan Guaidó, the head of the opposition-led national assembly, declared himself interim president....
Uncertainty and risk for journalists stranded at Venezuelan border
April 4, 2019 4:07 PM ET
As Venezuela's political crisis deepens, and the country closes its border with Colombia following violent clashes in late February, CPJ's emergencies director, María Salazar Ferro traveled to the Colombian border city Cúcuta, with Luisa Isaza, head of protection for the Colombian press freedom group FLIP, and CPJ's Andes correspondent,...
Venezuela's intimidation tactics include arbitrary arrests, deportation
March 29, 2019 12:43 PM ET
When Venezuelan military officials detained American freelancer Cody Weddle on March 11, the experience was both frightening and bizarre. Weddle said that agents put a hood over his head and pressed him to reveal sources he had never spoken with. They suggested the reporter was a member of the...
Maduro's internet blackout stifles news of Venezuela crisis
March 18, 2019 3:14 PM ET
One of the world's biggest news stories on March 4 was the daring return to Venezuela of opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaidó, who faced possible arrest by the authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro. But most Venezuelans were unable to follow his homecoming....
CPJ joins letter expressing concern about proposed cyberspace law in Venezuela
January 18, 2019 12:38 PM ET
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined more than 30 regional and international rights organizations expressing concern about a proposed law in Venezuela that would expand the powers of the government to control and monitor internet use without institutional checks....
Lawsuits and economic crisis drive Venezuela's journalists into exile
December 18, 2018 12:08 PM ET
When Ewald Scharfenberg, the founding editor of the Venezuelan investigative news website Armando.Info, holds editorial meetings, he pulls out his mobile phone. That's because most of his reporters are in Venezuela while Scharfenberg lives and works in neighboring Colombia....
Venezuela's anti-hate law provides Maduro with another tool to intimidate the press
February 6, 2018 5:15 PM ET
In what journalists fear could be a taste of things to come, Venezuela's new anti-hate law was enforced for the first time against a news organization on January 30, when Yndira Lugo, the editor of Diario Región, was called before government agents for questioning....
End of the print run for Venezuela's regional press as supplies dry up for critical outlets
December 27, 2017 10:00 AM ET
The lobby of El Carabobeño includes a display of vintage cameras, engraving plates and paper cutters from the 1930s when the newspaper was founded in Valencia, Venezuela's third-largest city. But now El Carabobeño's modern printing press could be added to the exhibit....
From power cuts to powerful threats, Venezuela's indigenous journalists face a series of challenges in their reporting
September 13, 2017 5:14 PM ET
Three twentysomethings huddle over a desk in a small room in Tucupita, a low-slung city of about 90,000 people that spills across the Orinoco river delta region in northeastern Venezuela. Far from the tear gas and street conflicts roiling cities including Caracas and Valencia, these journalists are focused on...
After Venezuelan elections, Globovisión shows more defiant stance
March 23, 2016 6:27 PM ET
When Venezuela's opposition broke the ruling party's 17-year stranglehold on power by winning control of congress in December, the political earthquake created editorial aftershocks at the 24-hour news station Globovisión....