The content published on this website isn’t liked by everyone. The oligarchs, in particular, are furious at the prospect of their dirty business being exposed here. Given the immense hard power they wield in Venezuela, it’s no surprise they’ve banned the site. It even requires executive powers to send intelligence police to raid the homes of the poor who they suspect are providing me with information. I find it astonishing how silent my fellow Venezuelan bloggers, journalists, media, and defenders of freedom of expression are about this. Even more surprising is that the Committee to Protect Journalists ignored my plea for help. This is a site solely aimed at exposing corruption. Corruption is like a Hydra; unfortunately, Herculean efforts like this aren’t welcomed or supported.
But it doesn’t matter. We will continue to bring to light the actions of the boliburguesía. In fact, we’re just getting started. We’ve managed to set up a secure leak platform, infodioLeaks, through which astonishing information keeps emerging (more on that later). Today, we’ve launched a mirror site, hoping that readers in Venezuela who are uncomfortable installing the Tor Browser or using proxy alternatives can still read what we publish. One thing is certain: despite all their ill-gotten wealth and power, the oligarchs will not succeed in their censorship attempts. Cuba, a totalitarian communist regime, strictly controlled and trapped in a dark age of technology, has been unable to block the flow of information. China too, despite its might. Can anyone honestly expect that the “incomprehensible mediocrities,” the boliburguesía and their “ethical hackers” will succeed?
They won’t. They can’t. And that’s why they resort to brute force, violence, threats, intimidation, and defamation. That’s all bullies know how to do, hoping critics will cower and back down. Well, we won’t. Nothing they do in Venezuela can affect this site’s operation. We will stand firm in our mission because the corruption in Venezuela has reached a point where corrupt oligarchs are being sued by utterly corrupt Russians in London!