La lupa digital está compartiendo historias de 'tecnología para la esperanza'. El escenario es #México 🇲🇽 Son historias complejas, difíciles, pero que muestran que la tecnología es algo que creamos juntxs y no algo que imaginaron un grupo de gente en una oficina en California.

This Friday: A Discussion with Venezuelans and Iranians in the diaspora about how to be in solidarity in this moment of crisis & change Learning Resistance through Global Solidarity We’re not Fighting Alone. www.eventbrite.com/e/understand...

[🇻🇪 Rafael Uzcátegui. Human Rights defender] "The #Venezuelan case offers a particularly clear lens to examine what might be called “minor colonialism”: how distant, well-meaning discourse can shape global understanding of a crisis more than the voices of those who have to live through it."

[🇻🇪 Luis Carlos Díaz, Journalist and Human Rights Defender] "One often-missed complexity of political prisoners in Venezuela is this: they are not prisoners of “the government” as a single entity. They are prisoners of the different factions that divide power."

[🇻🇪 CEPAZ HDR organization] "Venezuela’s current crisis demands an honest reflection on the role the international community has played—and continues to play—in shaping its trajectory. The opportunity to act responsibly is still present, but time is short."

[🇻🇪 Rafael Uzcátegui HRD] "Several well-intentioned statements claim that “the U.S. has imposed a government on Venezuela.” While understandable, this framing actually obscures the complexity of the current moment—and risks portraying real existing chavismo as a victim."

[This one's just mine, gathering from readings, research work and the overall experience of being VZ abroad] Watching people we admire (writers, journalists, colleagues who taught us to see nuance) walk away has been one of the hardest parts of this.

[🇻🇪 Naky Soto, HR defender and political analyst] "As days pass, it’s clearer that Trump exploited the institutional devastation engineered by chavismo, turning regime insiders into the executors of Maduro’s removal, freezing the Armed Forces, and reassigning power, backed by the threat of force."

[Note] Regarding my curation: I'm not translating takes here just because I find them interesting. The people I'm quoting are journalists, HR defenders, researchers and respected analysis that have presented data, and well-defended sources, often obtained and reported at high risk. [/Note]

[🇨🇴 María Emilia Gouffray - Historian and Political Scientist ] "What has happened to women under Venezuela’s authoritarian regime is central to understanding the crisis. One of its defining features has been the deep feminization of poverty."

[ 🇻🇪 Luis Carlos Días, journalist and HRD] "The last few days in Venezuela have been dense and tense. Under Delcy Rodríguez’s interim government, at least 14 journalists were detained, interrogated for hours, and released overnight. Street arrests continue to occur."

Protests that began in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar have spread nationwide amid currency collapse and deadly confrontations.

How and why are protests spreading in Iran?

Protests that began in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar have spread nationwide amid currency collapse and deadly confrontations.

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[🇻🇪 Mercedes de Freitas, director of Transparency Venezuela at the UN] "In Venezuela, domestic and international criminal networks operate in a symbiotic relationship with the Maduro administration, using state structures to facilitate, protect, and direct illicit operations."

[🇻🇪 Luis Carlos Díaz, journalist and human rights defender. This comes from a 25 min vid, so it won't be detailed] "Power in Venezuela was never held by Nicolás Maduro alone. It functioned as a coalition that distributed control over businesses, courts, prosecutors, and repressive institutions."

[🇻🇪 Anaís Castro, journalist, based in Argentina] “My colleagues were tortured under Nicolás Maduro’s government. (…) I went out into the streets in panic with my brother, just to make sure they wouldn’t kill him.”

[🇻🇪 Luis Carlos Díaz, journalist and human rights defender. This comes from a 25 min vid, so it won't be detailed] "Power in Venezuela was never held by Nicolás Maduro alone. It functioned as a coalition that distributed control over businesses, courts, prosecutors, and repressive institutions."

[🇨🇴 Karol Solís Menco, PhD in Political Science] "After decades of dictatorship and fear, no one can deny Venezuelans the right to hope. Understanding their joy at the fall of a tyrant is not incompatible with questioning what comes next." 🧵👇

Since there are many interesting and useful nuances shared by human rights activists, journalists and researchers that are not covered beyond LatAm I thought of sharing some of those here (a bit summarized and contextualized if needed). I'll be putting the source at the bottom of the thread.

I’m exhausted by seeing #Venezuelan pain instrumentalized or minimized in the name of ideological consistency. If we’re going to be outraged—and we should be—then let’s also be outraged by the disaster these people have inflicted, year after year, on millions of lives.

What is happening in #Venezuela is not a single mechanism of repression but a web of chaos and control where digital tools enable both targeted repression and mass surveillance. Yet, women activists lead and participate in creative ways to resist #16days genderit.org/feminist-tal...

🙌 The Curious Shapes collective will host my dear @mariannedh.bsky.social with Tawanda Mugari to talk hope, resistance and the absurdity of authoritarianism. You can expect a lot of community care and humor ♥️ 📅 👩🏻‍💻Online - Dec 4th. Learn more and register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/learning-r...

I’ve come across another call for submissions of fiction + tech and it is once again sci-fi inclined. I’d love to see one that’s open to talk about the here and now as well as the recent past. There’s a lot of stories to tell in the world we already know.

"Resistir y decidir" es un archivo de estrategias de protección digital dirigidas a proteger derechos sexuales y reproductivos. Hay planes, manuales y estrategias y cubren comprensión, prevención y respuesta a eventuales ataques. resistir.digitaldefenders.org #Ciberseguridad #Derechos

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"What happens when systems designed to control and monitor an entire country’s internet are offered to the highest bidder?" Comments and analysis reading between the lines of the latest IntersecLab report: interseclab.org/can-mass-sur...

Can mass surveillance be a consumer product? | InterSecLab

Surveillance company leaks expose mass surveillance, state control, and private sector involvement. What does this mean for global privacy?

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With the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, we're diving once again into endless debates about her political position - with media calling her "far-right" or "radical right."

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I had one of those difficult conversations on Venezuela with my dear @ayoub.bsky.social in @thefirethesetimes.com. I deeply appreciated having a welcoming space for such a complicated conversation and being able to keep calling attention to what is going on. thefirethesetimes.com/2025/06/10/a...

A Liquid Convo About Venezuela w/ Laura Vidal

We got into why Venezuelans flee the Maduro regime, how Venezuela(ns) is often covered, and the broader discourse battles that may or may not include people who still think Maduro is a passionate d…

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De la Flottille de la liberté à la Marche mondiale vers Gaza, ce sont les sociétés, et au premier chef leurs jeunesses, qui sauvent les principes bafoués par les États face au martyre du peuple de Palestine. Sur @mediapart.fr le 2 juin dernier ⤵️

Edwy Plenel@edwyplenel.bsky.social · last yr.

Plus Israël s’acharne à détruire la Palestine, plus le monde la reconnaît comme une cause universelle. C’est la lueur d’espoir dans ce désastre infini : un sursaut des consciences qui, pour l’avenir, sauve les principes d’humanité, de justice et d’égalité. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

#Americas 🌎 In our monthly roundup we highlight rising repression in #Venezuela and #ElSalvador, alarming authoritarian trends in Peru, and the #Colombia's anniversary of impunity with the case of Jineth Bedoya. ifex.org/rising-repre...

Rising repression in Venezuela and El Salvador, Peru's alarming trends, and Colombia's anniversary of impunity - IFEX

May 2025 in the Americas: A freedom of expression round-up by IFEX's Regional Editor Laura Vidal, based on IFEX member reports and news from the region.

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