Tensions between Venezuela and Colombia have been been high for years, but in recent months they appear to have reached new heights. At the UN General Assembly in September, Colombian President Iván Duque presented a dossier highlighting longstanding allegations of …
On Tuesday, October 22 I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at the U.S. Institute of Peace that was co-sponsored by WOLA, the Wilson Center, and the Inter-American Dialogue. The speakers were five members of a group of Venezuelan …
Residents of Petare, one of the largest popular barrios in Latin America, protested for two days against the operations of the Special Actions Force of the Bolivarian National Police (FAES) in their neighborhoods. The protests came ten days after a …
As efforts to negotiate a political solution to Venezuela’s crisis through the Norwegian mediation process remain on standby, the Maduro government continues promoting a parallel dialogue and raising the prospects of legislative elections in the next year. On October 17, …
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 …
