For journalists in Venezuela, free speech means risking imprisonment or exile.
- Fellow in Business and Human Rights, UCL
Nicolas Maduro’s government is pulling out all the stops to win an election it looks almost certain to lose.
Latin America’s biggest heavyweight and its worst basket case are tied together by politics and trade. But as life gets harder for both, their bonds are starting to fray.
Using a smuggled mobile phone, an imprisoned opposition leader has summoned the people of Venezuela to the streets again. Could it bring down Maduro?
With opposition leaders in jail and an economy in tatters, Venezuela could be just around the corner from a formal state of emergency.
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