July 29, 2024

A needless death on the mean streets of Caracas

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“La cosa está arrecha, mi pana” — “things have gotten rough, my friend” — was the voice message Daniel Torres left me a few weeks ago from Caracas. It was a reminder that life in the Venezuela of Nicolás Maduro can only get worse. For Torres, better known as “Gordo”, the driver of a string of foreign journalists who have washed up in Caracas, things got deadly rough.

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