Rocío San Miguel, a Venezuelan human rights lawyer, has been held in the infamous "Helicoide" prison by the #Maduro Regime since 9 February 2024. She needs urgent care for a broken bone.

#Venezuela #HumanRights #Helicoide #Prison #Caracas #Repression #Dictatorship #HumanRightsLawyer

Venezuela frees 6 Americans after meeting between President Maduro and Trump's envoy

“This is terrible timing,” said Elliott Abrams, who served as special envoy to Venezuela during the first Trump administration. “A meeting with Maduro will be used by him to legitimize his rule and show that the Americans recognize him as president.

https://sentinelcolorado.com/nation-world/world/venezuela-frees-6-americans-after-meeting-between-president-maduro-and-trumps-envoy/

#Proton is one of the few companies out there that I still admire for their fairness and ideological stances.

When #Maduro stole the latest elections in #Venezuela, the usual political theft patterns emerged:

1. Extreme unlikelihood of the numeric results, which I already analyzed back then, and which points to naive manipulations of the numbers.

2. Hard crackdown against any foreign non-governative websites. First most of the local fact checking websites were blocked, followed by 70 media outlets and NGOs (and even Wikipedia) blocked for a whole month.

During this time, ProtonVPN became the most downloaded app in Venezuela - downloads spiked up 4000% in the days before the election.

Of course, Maduro’s regime tried to prevent people from using it - on one hand Proton was accused of being a scam app designed to steal user data (and the fact that most of the Venezuelans still downloaded it shows to which extent they mistrust the lies of their illegitimate government), and on the other hand Maduro’s poorly staffed IT teams tried their best to block the VPN by blocking any IP subnets it used.

None of these efforts succeeded.

Maduro trying to discredit an app developed by a small Swiss company only had a Streisand effect that made the app even more popular.

And Proton on the other hand has learned to evade censorship attempts by governments with IT teams much more sophisticated than Maduro’s (China and Russia above all).

Talking of Russia, the CEO of Proton acknowledges that in the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (which Putin’s propaganda machine still called a “short-term special operation”) censorship was so widespread that at some point ProtonVPN handled 5-6% of Russia’s total Internet traffic.

The war against regimes however is never over. Russia’s crackdown on YouTube in August (which made YouTube unusable for ~90% of the Russian population) is still quite effective. And their efforts in blocking all the IPs used by foreign VPN services are becoming increasingly sophisticated.

That’s why it’s important to donate to companies like Proton. Even though I don’t use their mail services much nowadays (I migrated to a fully self-hosted solution), nor their office suite (again, self-hosted), and I’m lucky enough to live in a country where I don’t need a VPN to access most of the Web, I keep donating to them. Ensuring that everyone around the world can access the Web the same way I do is a price worth paying.

https://www.compiler.news/proton-vpn-venezuela-russia/

"A powerful cultural revolution. Venezuela, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and the world need a powerful cultural revolution that reclaims the best of human values and stands in opposition to the values or anti-values of Western decadence and fascism. A cultural revolution that clearly establishes the foundations of a new modernity. From Venezuela, we proclaim a new socialist modernity"

– Nicholás Maduro, president of Venezuela

#socialism #Maduro #revolution

https://www.reddit.com/r/CommunismMemes/comments/1i1xrc5/president_maduro_calls_for_a_socialist_cultural/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Venezuela’s President Maduro Proposes Brazilian-Led Liberation of Puerto Rico

https://defensemirror.com/news/38588/Venezuela___s_President_Maduro_Proposes_Brazilian_Led_Liberation_of_Puerto_Rico

Without in any way remarking on the legitimacy or not of #Maduro, pls someone, remind me of the moral framework underpinning Merka's belief to do stuff like this [ditto, say, extraditing #whistleblowers like #Assange] when Merka itself defiantly arrogantly refuses to place itself under the auspices of the UN & ICC for its decades of myriad evil acts across the rock?

#MerkanArrogance #MerkanHypocrisy #MerkanMadness #ICC

https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/113805990636865839

Wait. A Government soon to be led by a compulsive liar and crook is offering a $25 million reward for anyone bringing them another compulsive liar and crook?
#Venezuela #Maduro #psychopath
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9ezyw0keo

What’s happening in Venezuela, hours before the swearing-in of Nicolás Maduro?

Luis Soto of Misión Venezuela Joven spoke to People’s Dispatch about why despite the international media campaign, the sanctions, and the threats of right-wing violence, the people of Venezuela have been out on the streets defending their democracy and sovereignty and the Bolivarian Revolution.

■ Estados Unidos aumenta a 25 millones de dólares la recompensa por la captura de Nicolás Maduro ■ Se ofrece la misma cuantía por el ministro del Interior venezolano, Diosdado Cabello.
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/estados-unidos-aumenta-25-millones-dolares-recompensa-captura-nicolas-madurobr.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD

Venezuelas Staatschef Maduro für dritte Amtszeit vereidigt

Trotz internationaler Vorwürfe des Wahlbetrugs ist der venezolanische Staatschef Maduro für eine dritte Amtszeit vereidigt worden. Oppositionsführerin Machado war zuvor bei Protesten kurzzeitig festgenommen worden.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/venezuela-maduro-vereidigt-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

@torproject blocked in

#Venezuela #LatinAmerica #Maduro #Dictatorship #Censorship #Tor #HumanRights #Democracy #ElectionFraud #Politics

Venezuelans from the #Boston area gathered tonight, despite the freezing cold, in front of #FaneuilHall to protest Maduro's fraudulent presidential swearing-in tomorrow.

#Venezuela #LatinAmerica #Maduro #Dictatorship #HumanRights #Democracy #ElectionFraud #Politics

"María Corina, libre"

https://www.youtube.com/live/FCoS9Xvu2vw

#Venezuela #LatinoAmérica #Maduro #Dictadura #DDHH #Democracia #MariaCorinaMachado #Secuestro #Política #Actualización #UltimasNoticias

Update: There are contradictory versions floating around about MCM kidnapping. Some of which report that MCM has been released and she's in hiding now. This has not been officially confirmed yet! It could be a PsyOp.

#Venezuela #LatinAmerica #Maduro #Dictatorship #HumanRights #Democracy #MariaCorinaMachado #Kidnapped #Politics #BreakingNews #Update

oh, Venezuela.

**SEE UPDATE TO FOLLOWING POST BELOW (IN REPLY)

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado ‘kidnapped’, allies say

Allies says leader ‘violently intercepted’ after sneaking out of hideout to lead protest against authoritarian president Nicolás Maduro

#news #Venezuela #Machado #Maduro

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/09/venezuela-maria-corina-machado-kidnapped