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Welcome to Veneco News Brief, a compilation of weekly news, analysis, and fact-based reporting on grassroots mobilization and the state of democracy in Venezuela

Partidos intervenidos, garantías precarias y la sombra de la AN de 2015: cómo se llega a las parlamentarias de 2025

Efecto Cocuyo, 2 de marzo de 2025

"A siete meses (25 de mayo) para que se venza el periodo de los diputados de la Asamblea Nacional (AN) y el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) tiene previsto la ejecución de los comicios en los que se elegirán gobernadores, Consejos Legislativos y parlamentarios. El actual proceso, marcado por la opacidad en las decisiones y actividades del CNE, tiene algunas similitudes con las elecciones de la AN de 2020..."

‘Maduro has done tremendous damage to the left’: An interview with Atenea Jiménez (Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy, Venezuela)

Atenea Jiménez & Federico Fuentes, LINKS - International Journal of Socialist Renewal, February 22, 2025

"Atenea Jiménez is a Venezuelan sociologist and co-founder of the National Network of Communal Activists and the Campesino University of Venezuela Argimiro Gabaldón. Currently living in Spain, Jiménez helped initiate the new Alianza por la Soberanía y la Democracia (Alliance for Sovereignty and Democracy, ASD), which is bringing together various Venezuelan left movements and activists. In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Jiménez explains the origins and objectives of the alliance, and its views on the Nicolás Maduro government and traditional right-wing opposition..."

Juan Carlos La Rosa Velazco: “Nadie se reconoce aún en el hambre venezolana”

Silvia Adoue & Raúl Zibechi, El Salto, 17 de febrero de 2025

"Juan Carlos La Rosa Velazco es activista e investigador por los derechos territoriales de los pueblos en la cuenca occidental del Lago de Maracaibo. Desde hace 14 años, este educador y comunicador, constructor, carpintero, diseñador y conuquero, participa como comunario de la experiencia territorial “El Agua Nos Une”..."

What if the Dictatorship is Just Starting?

Jeudiel Martínez, Caracas Chronicles, February 10, 2025

"Venezuelans will only survive this ordeal by nurturing the diaspora and figuring out how to organize without mainstream politicians. These are our options before a resilient regime and a hostile international environment..."

‘Each Failed Attempt at Democratic Transition Reinforces the Power of the Authoritarian Government'

Civicus staff, Carlos Torrealba, Civicus, January 25, 2025

"CIVICUS discusses the expectations of Venezuelan civil society following Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration with Carlos Torrealba, a Venezuelan academic and researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In the months leading up to Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration for his third presidential term in January 2025, his government intensified repression, rejecting his defeat in the July election..."

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