Maduro government seeking to silence critics as Venezuela political cartoonist fired from newspaper after political interference

See Rayma Suprani’s Twitter @raymacaricatura and at Facebook. Also Rayma’s El Universal page has been emptied of her work. This is the artist’s biography written for Emory University’s Cartooning for Peace and Health symposium:

Rayma Suprani studied social communication at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, specializing in humoristic editorial graphics. She has been a cartoonist for the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal since 1999, the year Chavez became the leader of Venezuela. In 2005, she won the Inter-American Press Society prize for best cartoonist. Suprani has also been published in the newspaper Estampas and has authored seven books.

Here is a small gallery of her work:

Also see these political cartoonists from around the world selected by the Emory University symposium:

Angel Boligán Corbo from: Mexico

Gary Javier from: Puerto Rico

Xavier Bonilla (Bonil) from: Ecuador

Michel Kichka from: Israel

Jerry Boursiquot (Bousiko) from: Haiti

Mike Luckovich from: United States

Daryl Cagle from: United States

Jean Plantureux (Plantu) from: France

Mario Casartelli from: Paraguay

Hermenegildo Sábat from: Argentina

André-Philippe Côté from: Canada

Rayma Suprani from: Venezuela

Jeff Danziger from: United States

Ann Telnaes from: United States

Ali Dilem from: Algeria

Harold Trujillo Torres (Chócolo) from: Colombia

Liza Donnelly from: United States

Hernan Vidal (Hervi) from: Chile

Editorial cartoonist fired