CCSCity450
From murals to urban interventions, community art projects to writing contests, CCSCity450 is challenging residents of Caracas to reclaim the streets – an act of creative resistance in a time where crime, hunger, and free expression violations dominate daily life in the Venezuelan capital.
Caro Rolando is a Venezuelan-Canadian freelance journalist. Follow her on Twitter @Caro_escribe
In the face of the growing crackdown on press freedom sparked by Venezuela’s presidential election, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and seven partner organisations (including IFEX-ALC) have joined forces to expose the harrowing obstacles currently facing the Venezuelan press. The report found over 228 violations of press freedom, and notes that at least eight journalists remain arbitrarily imprisoned.
This is part one of a series. Part two focuses on the legacy of Venezuela’s state surveillance.
Eight people are detained by Nicolás Maduro’s government for carrying out their journalistic duties.