Girish Gupta is a British freelance journalist based in Caracas, Venezuela. His work has taken him all over the region, covering Mexico’s drug wars in Ciudad Juárez, Colombia’s paramilitaries in its northern jungles and maverick Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s ups and downs as he battles cancer before elections in October 2012. He also writes for Reuters, TIME and many other outlets.
Coloring books and historical reenactments help keep the late president's legend alive for a new generation.
President Nicolas Maduro pulls out a secret weapon against Venezuela's bad press: adorable pets.
Model and telenovela actress Monica Spear and her ex-husband were killed, and their 5-year-old daughter was injured, in an apparent robbery while on vacation in Venezuela.
Not Tokyo. Not London. Think south, and left.
‘We have to guarantee that everybody has a plasma television and the latest-generation fridge,’ a government official said before deploying troops to shopping centers.
A month before municipal elections, some say the socialist government is trying to buy votes even as the economy spirals.
Update: Washington has responded to Caracas’ expulsions by kicking out three Venezuelan diplomats, the latest tit-for-tat between Venezuela and the northern superpower it says stinks like Satan.
First the toilet paper was running out. Now, squeezed by Venezuela's currency controls, newspapers are shutting because they can't import enough newsprint.
'Syria needs full support against these criminals,' a Venezuelan congressman of Syrian descent says, as Western powers debate a strike on President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Nicolas Maduro was once Hugo Chavez’s top foreign diplomat. Now that he’s in charge, some of the vitriol persists.
Venezuela's raging legislators step into the ring — otherwise known as parliament — to duke it out over a disputed election.