N.J. Labeikovsky

Fighting evil at Moonlight. Formerly Bungie, EA // From the land of the Arepa,Pabellón, and the Papelón.

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

Sec. @marcorubio told Congress Venezuela’s infamous torture center El Helicoide was closed. In reality, they are moving the political prisoners to an unknown location. Their desperate families demand to know where they Delcy Rodriguez dictatorship is taking their loved ones.

[Alex_TVzla @at_tvzla]

What is the “Panama Manifesto”—and why is it so important?

[Alex_TVzla @at_tvzla]

Venezuela is on the brink of an explosion:

[Alex_TVzla @at_tvzla]

Make no mistake: the Venezuelan regime killed Carmen Navas.

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

Carmen Navas spent the last year of her life searching desperately for her son Victor Quero who was disappeared and killed by the chavista dictatorship. She learned he was dead 10 days ago and died today at 83 years old. Forgiveness? They’re still killing us! Venezuelans need justice. Now.

[Alex_TVzla @at_tvzla]

Venezuela has extradited Alex Saab to the U.S.—but who is he? Why is he so important to the trial against Nicolás Maduro?

[Alex_TVzla @at_tvzla]

Corruption in Venezuela is so extreme that it’s hard to visualize—so let’s visualize it.

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

🫓 Venezuelans have repressed one of their most natural urges: celebrating.

This is a good moment to let go.

[Luis Carlos 🏴‍☠️ One Piece @LuisCarlos]

Lo hermoso de este momento, de ganar el campeonato mundial de béisbol, es que Venezuela podrá celebrar lo que desde el 3 de enero se le ha impedido celebrar a balazos, detenciones y desapariciones. Una fiesta se hace parte de otra fiesta. De un ciclo que termina.

[verónica @verocosmica]

THE INDOMITABLE VENECO SPIRIT TAMED THE CRUELTY INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

LOOK WHAT IT MEANS TO TEAM VENEZUELA! 🥹🇻🇪

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

“Nobody believed in Venezuela but we won the championship today” 🇻🇪

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

Yep. Chavez claimed he wasn’t really a socialist before he was elected, like American socialists do today. But the signs were there as he traveled to Cuba to pledge allegiance to Castro and had a leftwing populist speech. This is why I tell Americans to not trust politicians who say they are “democratic” socialists but have a history of praising left wing dictatorships.

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

Indefensible how the New York Times continues spreading misinformation in order to keep access to the Venezuelan brutal regime. They continue pushing Delcy as a moderate and focusing on her great education. Yet This piece omits Delcy’s role as head of the Sebin, one of the regime’s torture forces. No mention of her major role in the criminal gold mining operation in the Amazon or how entrenched she is in Venezuela’s decline into a mafia state. Negligent reporting at a crucial hour yet again from the New York Times https://t.co/AaWqXozQWJ

[Luis Carlos 🏴‍☠️ One Piece @LuisCarlos]

¿Cómo es que el mundo ha permitido la existencia del Helicoide? ¿Cuántos países vieron a otro lado? ¿Cuánto petróleo y cuántos petrodólares repartió el chavismo en la región para que hubiese tanta complicidad?

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

A great message from a Venezuelan to those who say we should fight our own battles: ‘since I was 18 I’ve participated in every kind of democratic process and protest against the dictatorship’
The Venezuelan youth has had to fight in ways those protesting at US universities could never even fathom… from marching to striking to blocking and dancing on the streets… nothing has worked because the regime has the monopoly of violence.

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

🫓 Márquez and Pilieri were held at El Helicoide. They weren’t released at the gate but driven to Altamira, a neighborhood at the other side of the city, and let go there.

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

🫓 This is chavismo’s infamous torture center El Helicoide.

For over 30 years there’s been some serious bad juju emanating from the heights of Roca Tarpeya – the place where El Helicoide slouches, looking down over the city like an overfed chavista bureaucrat.

From Jorge Romero Gutiérrez, the visionary architect whose reputation remained forever tainted by what his creation symbolized, to Hugo Chávez’s santero beliefs, to the astrologer who became its first political prisoner – Caldera’s political prisoner –, the unfinished structure has always been surrounded by a dark mantle of superstition.

But more than a curse, El Helicoide is actually a metaphor for the last 50 years of Venezuelan history, as nuestra Celeste Olalquiaga, a cultural historian who grew up in Caracas, so eloquently states:

“El Helicoide is a metaphor for the whole modern period in Venezuela and what went wrong.”

The transformation from icon of Venezuela’s hopes to emblem of failure and repression was slow and complicated. It began with a coup, stretched over decades of dictatorship and democracy, through the rule of 14 presidents and several cycles of oil boom and bust.

Someone looking for bad omens might have found one in the name of the hill where it’s built, Roca Tarpeya; the Tarpeian Rock was an execution ground in ancient Rome.

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

we venezuelans around the world, in our personal lives, have discovered who really cares about us since Saturday lol

[Luis Carlos 🏴‍☠️ One Piece @LuisCarlos]

Recomendaciones de Laura Vidal @lenguaraz , investigadora venezolana de temas digitales y ciberactivismo, para mantener la seguridad en tus equipos durante estos días en Venezuela.