As Venezuela’s economic crisis gets deeper and its conflict more intractable, foreign aid is ever more central to the battle for political power.
On October 8 U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Mark Green announced an agreement to provide $98 …
On Friday, September 27, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution creating an independent investigative body to look into human rights violations and crimes taking place in Venezuela since 2014 (extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and …
The United Nations General Assembly in New York provided a new space for Venezuela’s parallel realities, with Nicolás Maduro and Juan Guaidó’s diplomats representing the country in competing spaces.
On Monday the Rio Treaty countries met …
The Latin American Advisor has a Q&A on the new negotiation effort happening between the Maduro government and a minority segment of the opposition. Comments are provided by Gustavo Roosen, Beatriz Rangel, Steve Ellner, Peter DeShazo and myself. The question …
Venezuela’s historic meltdown is often explained as a consequence of bad governance, corruption and the collapse of the oil sector or of international sanctions. Solutions are sought in the political sphere—dialogue, free elections, regime change—but there is little room to …
In the span of twenty-four hours, Venezuela’s political conflict went from a configuration in which the opposition was dedicated to a negotiation that the Maduro government rejected, to one in which the Maduro government was dedicated to a negotiation that …
We had an excellent discussion last week, co-organized by WOLA and the Wilson Center, with leading members of Venezuelan civil society. Luz Mely Reyes of Efecto Cocuyo, recipient of WOLA’s 2019 Human Rights Award was joined by Feliciano Reyna of …
It was a week of setbacks and recovery for those who see a credible threat of a military force as the key to pushing for a transition in Venezuela.
On the one hand, the departure of U.S. National Security Advisor …
The situation is significant insofar as the leading argument marshaled by those pushing for military intervention to dislodge Maduro is that his government is a threat to regional security.
Forty regional human rights groups, members of the “Working Group on Venezuelan Human Mobility,” published a statement criticizing Ecuador’s measure suggesting it does not take into account the difficulties Venezuelans face in obtaining official documents. The statement suggests Ecuador’s new law points to a regional problem.
