Politics

Nahuel Gallo denounced torture and mock executions during his detention in Venezuela

Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo recounts the torture and mock executions he suffered during his 448-day detention in a Venezuelan prison.

The Last Homeland

There are photographs that time deteriorates and others that pain makes eternal. In almost all Venezuelan families scattered around the world, there is an image that ends up acquiring a sacred gravity: a mother leaning on the edge of a table, a mother waiting in a silent room, a mother smiling without knowing that years later that photograph will be consulted like one opens a reliquary. Exile turns the simplest images into small ruins of happiness. And then one discovers that the word return does not always name a place: sometimes it names a woman.

The soulless “bonification”: Venezuela versus Rerum Novarum

Walking down Urdaneta Avenue during a protest of university retirees is to witness a cruel anachronism. Faces carrying decades of teaching, research, and public service crowd in front of police lines, not demanding luxuries, but clamoring for the minimum: survival. This scene, which repeats with painful frequency in 2026, would have been familiar to Pope Leo XIII when in 1891 he drafted the encyclical Rerum Novarum. That document, which laid the foundations of Catholic Social Teaching, was born to denounce the “miseries and calamities that so unjustly weigh upon the greater part of the working class.” Leo XIII warned of a world where a handful of powerful imposed an almost servile yoke on a mass of dispossessed workers. One hundred and thirty-five years later, the Venezuelan economic model has achieved a macabre feat: reissuing those injustices of the 19th century under a veneer of progressive rhetoric, replacing real wages with a bonus structure that strips work of its human and legal content.

Abelardo de la Espriella denounces a new possible attack against him

Presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella stated this Saturday that he received information about an alleged attack being planned against him.

From a brawl to jail: 2 young men arrested on San Andres Island

Two 21-year-old men were prosecuted and sent to prison centers after allegedly being caught carrying weapons without the required documentation in the archipelago of San Andres.

Monteria: Paloma Valencia's Big Proposal for the Caribbean Coast

During her campaign tour in the city of Montería, this Saturday, presidential candidate Paloma Valencia of the Gran Consulta announced that in her government, from day one, she would order the reduction of energy bills by half in the Caribbean Coast, to "alleviate the pockets of millions of families who today pay the most expensive service in the country."

Continuity

Cities are social conglomerates. As such, they are dynamic, and their destiny is subject to different, non-linear processes. Sometimes they advance at a good pace, other times they slow down and stagnate. All this is mediated by the actions of their leaders and the interest of communities in the evolution of these transformations.

Óscar García Márquez killed by hitmen arriving at his home

The crime of Óscar Fabio García Márquez, 25 years old, who was shot dead by hitmen on the afternoon of Friday, May 8, in the Carrizal neighborhood of Barranquilla, is related to a possible settling of scores.

Video: Gun attack in Parque Heredia leaves one dead in attempted robbery

The tranquility of the Parque Heredia urbanization was interrupted this Saturday afternoon, May 9, after a violent incident that left one man dead amid an alleged robbery attempt.

The Double Obsolescence of the Aqueduct: A Problem of Rights and Governance

Aguas de Cartagena, the mixed company that has provided water and sewage services in Cartagena since 1995, today faces a double obsolescence: physical and administrative. This crisis compromises the sustainability of the system, the fundamental right to water, and the safety of maintenance personnel, who are targets of aggression due to social frustration over the poor quality of service.

Twist in Carolina Flores' case: Ex-queen's husband raises suspicions

The murder of Carolina Flores continues to cause shock in Mexico as new investigation details have begun to focus on her husband, Alejandro Sánchez. The young woman was murdered on April 15th in her apartment in the exclusive Polanco sector of Mexico City.

Gun attack on a car workshop left one dead and 2 injured

A 24-year-old young man dead and two others injured left the sicario attack that occurred in the Paraíso neighborhood of the municipality of Sabanalarga, Atlántico, according to authorities.