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Human Rights Foundation Demands Release of Incarcerated Judge María Lourdes Afiuni

Free Venezuela is pleased to publicize the following statement from the Human Rights Foundation: The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls on Venezuelan authorities to immediately ...

Is Peronism the Key to Chavismo’s Future?

The mischief and deceit of the Chavista regime continues. “Our commander is climbing the hill, he’s advancing, and that fills us with great happiness,” claimed ...

Behind the Havana Pact

The following article by Andres Oppenheimer originally appeared at The Miami Herald. As Venezuelans anxiously awaited news from ailing President Hugo Chávez and his ministers ...

Chavez the Phantom Remains in Control

The following article by Ben Cohen is crossposted from Commentary Magazine. Perhaps the least disturbing aspect of today’s abandoned presidential inauguration ceremony in Caracas is ...

Capriles Teaches Chavistas a Moral Lesson

The following article by the Argentinian commentator Rogelio Alaniz has been edited and translated by FreeVenezuela.org staff. On the morning of Wednesday January 2nd a ...

Milos Alcalay: We Don’t Have Democracy, We Don’t Have Human Rights

Ambassador Milos Alcalay, the former Venezuelan envoy to the United Nations, recently spoke with Free Venezuela. One of the themes the ambassador touched on was ...

Yoani Sanchez: Cuba Holds Its Breath

The following article by the Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez originally appeared at The Huffington Post: The first day of January usually begins with loudspeakers ...

An Abusive People

The following op-ed by Zoe Valdés has been translated by Free Venezuela staff from El Universal: A people that prefers a man to be in ...

Raul Castro Will Do “Anything You Might Think Of” To Seize Venezuela Wealth

In Free Venezuela’s latest podcast, Michael Skol, former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, has some harsh words for Hugo Chavez, the Chavismo movement and its Cuban ...

Diego Arria on the “CASTRO-phy” Facing Venezuela

Free Venezuela’s Diego Arria writes a regular column for The Huffington Post. His latest article is reproduced below. The results of the Dec. 16 state ...