The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as president of Mexico has generated concerns regarding this government’s eventual stance with respect to Venezuela. In his victory speech, AMLO suggested his government would effectively move back to the “Estrada Doctrine” …
Yesterday my friend Daniel Garcia Marco of BBC Mundo published an interview with me regarding sanctions. It’s in Spanish so let me just summarize the main points.
This week Venezuela’s opposition dominated National Assembly held a session to discuss the country’s transportation crisis and ask the government to declare a national emergency. Economic crisis and hyperinflation mean that many Venezuelans living in cities are finding it hard …
When Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was elected president of Mexico with a clear mandate to break from the country’s status quo, his victory was met with widespread handwringing from many Venezuela analysts. Noting that AMLO has vowed to return Mexico …
In the context of a collapsing economy, President Nicolás Maduro has reaffirmed what we already knew: he sees the military as a bulwark against threats to his presidency. Just ten days after the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights …
International engagement
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited South America last week and urged allies to pressure Venezuela. In Brazil he spoke with President Michel Temer, and asked Brazil to “act more firmly” to restore democracy in Venezuela. But while …
Teresa García Castro*
From June 13-15, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Carissa F. Etienne visited the country in response to an invitation issued by the Venezuelan government during the World Health Assembly held in May 2018. The …
Students walk through the Universidad Central de Venezuela. ©Rodrigo Romero
(This is the first of a series of posts in which we will examine different aspects of Venezuela’s higher education system. Read our previous post on this topic here and …
Reshuffle could mean push for a new constitution
One effect of naming former president of the National Constituent Assembly Delcy Rodriguez as his new vice president is that President Nicolás Maduro opened a space for the reemergence of Diosdado Cabello. …
Political prisoners receive lecture before being released.
Hugo Pérez Hernáiz
On June 13 after the third round of releases of political prisoners by the government, Delcy Rodríguez (then president of the Constitutive Assembly, Venezuela’s Vice-president since June 14), announced that …
