In our 45-year history, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) has built a long trajectory of criticizing both U.S. military intervention and violations of democracy and human rights in our hemisphere. In the case of Venezuela, we were one …
Juan Guaidó, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly who has assumed the interim presidency returned to Venezuela on Monday. There had been much anticipation of his return given that he had a legal prohibition on leaving the country, with speculation …
After a failed attempt to deliver aid across borders, Venezuela’s opposition is regrouping and more outside commentators are discussing the unthinkable: military intervention. But not so fast: diplomatic efforts continue, both with and without the Trump administration. Pressure, multilateral sanctions, …
The Venezuelan opposition and its backers in the US government seem to have lost momentum in the past three days. On Monday the Lima Group of countries that since 2017 have worked together to try to pressure a return to …
I talked to Jerome McDonnell of WBEZ Worldview about the opposition’s failed effort to bring in humanitarian aid into Venezuela and where it leaves them. You can listen here.…
On February 21, twelve leading human rights organizations from Venezuela and across the Americas sent a letter to the foreign ministries of the member countries of the Lima Group, which is meeting today in Bogota (version en español).…
The below is a joint statement on the international response to the humanitarian emergency in Venezuela, signed by more than 60 Venezuelan organizations and 7 from across the Americas. (Version en español).
As organizations deeply concerned by …
The visual politics of Venezuela’s battle for power normally take place in the streets of Caracas, with opposition and government organizing dual concentrations and emitting aerial photos favorable to their side and disfavorable to the other. This week this battle …
Yesterday I participated in a Facebook Live discussion on the Venezuelan opposition with my colleagues and friends Javier Corrales and Margarita López Maya. Following LASA tradition, we freely switch back and forth between English and Spanish. It was sponsored …
(We have an op-ed published in New York Times Español today, which you can read here. The English original is below.)
Last week the multilateral International Contact Group (ICG) held its first meeting to address the Venezuela crisis. …
