César Báez
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- Aug 30, 2026
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Inside Venezuela’s El Helicoide prison: How dissident Jesús Armas endured torture and outlasted Maduro (opens the original)
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The night the socialist Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was captured, thousands of political prisoners across the country shouted in celebration: "Down with the dictatorship!" For Jesús Armas, an activist locked inside the infamous prison known as El Helicoide, it seemed possible the regime that had abducted and tortured him was finally beginning to break. It wasn't. Maduro is gone, American oil investment is returning to Venezuela, and yet the apparatus of repression remains intact. In the m
Socialist Hugo Chávez destroyed Venezuela’s power grid. Now the regime hopes private capital will rebuild it. (opens the original)
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Venezuela's electric grid was once the envy of Latin America. The Guri Dam, completed in 1986, was one of the world's largest hydroelectric plants, and the nation's grid reached 96 percent of households by the early 2000s. Today, after more than two decades of socialist rule, hours-long outages are routine in Venezuela. Blackouts disable water pumps, cellular service, electronic payments, and hospital equipment. The independent National Hospital Survey reported 233 deaths from 2019 through 2021
What Mamdani Can Learn From Hugo Chávez's Government-Run Grocery Store Debacle (opens the original)
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Hugo Chávez holds bananas and a bottle of cooking oil beside Zohran Mamdani.
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