[rafaelm]

I think the internet is back up in most parts of the country, I have some friends in Tachira and it seems that things are back to normal, for now. The govt keeps running small tests like last week when they blocked twitter images for a couple of hours and last night in Tachira.

Meanwhile, there is a complete media blackout. Local TV channels are being censored and are not informing what is going on in the country. Our only means of information is the internet, mostly twitter. This causes a lot of misinformation unfortunately.

Last night , while there were protests everywhere in Caracas and the rest of the country the president went on TV live to talk (all the channels have to stop regular programming and have to transmit whatever he is saying), the National Guard with armed government supporters went out and cracked down hard on all the protestors:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmzfwqczZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxbdzBYjAug

I have friends in other areas in Caracas that had to sleep on the floor because of constant shooting from the streets up to the apartments.