After Maduro: Analyzing Venezuela’s Internet During Political Upheaval
From Telemetry Now by Phil Gervasi
January 6, 2026 · 45 min · Season 2 · Episode 64
About this episode
The episode analyzes the state of Venezuela's internet during political upheaval, discussing infrastructure challenges and censorship.
Host Philip Gervasi is joined by Andrés Azpúrua (Executive Director, VE sin Filtro / “Free and Secure Online”) and Kentik’s Doug Madory to examine what internet visibility can, and can’t, tell us during a fast-moving political crisis in Venezuela. They discuss Venezuela’s “baseline” reality of brittle infrastructure and recurring power outages, alongside long-standing, regulator-mandated censorship targeting independent media, social platforms, and even exchange-rate information. Using multiple data perspectives, the episode explores how traffic patterns, localized outages, and BGP noise can be misread without ground truth, and why careful attribution matters.
People in this episode
Host: Philip Gervasi
Guests: Andrés Azpúrua, Doug Madory
Topics covered
- internet visibility
- political crisis
- Venezuela
- infrastructure
- censorship
- data analysis
Keywords
- Venezuela
- internet
- political crisis
- censorship
- data analysis
- infrastructure
- BGP noise
- traffic patterns
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: VE sin Filtro
Places: Venezuela
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