Free Venezuela Podcast with Marco Antonio Ponce

Free Venezuela

Today Andrés Correa interviews human rights defender Marco Antonio Ponce, Coordinator of the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict. He researches for the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLASCO) and the Venezuelan Program of Education-Action in Human Rights (PROVEA). He is also a professor at Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he teaches Sociopolitics, Human Rights and International information systems. He talks about how the Venezuelans keep protesting peaceably in the streets, even though the regime represses them with violence and jail. In average, there are 15 protests per day in Venezuela, with more that 5,000 per year, more than in any other Latin American country, and the figures keep growing. For him, this is another expression of the truly Democratic spirit that underlies in the Venezuelan society. Right now, the shortages of basic goods and runaway inflation are generating a new type of spontaneous protests at supermarkets, that the government want to repress.