“A Dangerous Assignment“
HAVANA TIMES – We bring you the full-length documentary film just released: A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela. The film is mostly in Spanish with English subtitles.
PBS FRONTLINE and the Venezuelan news outlet ARMANDO INFO. investigate Alex Saab, a shadowy figure at the heart of a corruption scandal spanning from Venezuela to the US, and explore what has happened to the journalists who helped uncover the scandal.
In 2016, as Venezuela was in economic freefall, President Nicolás Maduro’s government responded with the CLAP program: a domestic aid initiative that was billed as providing high-quality, essential food items to Venezuelans impacted by the economic crisis. But as the FRONTLINE and Armando.info documentary shows, complaints about powdered milk in the CLAP boxes soon caught the attention of a team of journalist