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(UPDATED) If the military abandons Venezuela’s power-grabbing president, it’s game over for the Maduro regime.
Fed up with an increasingly authoritarian government, Venezuelans are taking to the streets – where they are met with violence.
Rather than an outright coup, Venezuela’s government has slowly eroded its democratic institutions and processes, until now.
When leaders of weak democracies use social media to connect with their constituents, people feel heard. But Twitter responses won’t give citizens what they need.
Venezuelans, fleeing hunger and repression at home, have surpassed Central Americans as the top US asylum-seekers.
Venezuela’s major crises will continue in 2017. These include ongoing economic instability, over-reliance on the price of oil, shortages of food and electricity and increasing inequality. At the core is…
More than any other, Venezuela is a country of Cuba’s making. But its own national tragedy is too deep for most citizens to mourn Fidel Castro’s death.
Some onlookers are suspicious that Venezuela’s army is mounting a slow coup – but the country has been militarising itself for decades.
How does an oil-rich country end up with a food shortage? A GSU international development expert explains how the legacy of one man’s rise to power continues to cripple the nation.
Islamic State lost ground, Colombia got a chance at lasting peace, and the Pope sounded a liberated note on homosexuality.
Venezuela sits at the edge of a humanitarian calamity. A GSU international mediation expert explains how outsiders can play a critical role in resolving the cause – a deeply rooted political battle.
The establishment media wants it one way, and the populist left another. Why is there so little straight reporting on Latin America?
For journalists in Venezuela, free speech means risking imprisonment or exile.
Following a dramatic election loss, the government now has to deal with an overwhelmingly centrist parliament.
Nicolas Maduro’s government is pulling out all the stops to win an election it looks almost certain to lose.
With drug trafficking, turf war, and craven politicking all at work, Colombia and Venezuela’s fraught relationship has taken a turn for the worse.
Latin America’s biggest heavyweight and its worst basket case are tied together by politics and trade. But as life gets harder for both, their bonds are starting to fray.
Using a smuggled mobile phone, an imprisoned opposition leader has summoned the people of Venezuela to the streets again. Could it bring down Maduro?
With opposition leaders in jail and an economy in tatters, Venezuela could be just around the corner from a formal state of emergency.
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Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Fellow in Business and Human Rights, UCL
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Director of the Center for Political Studies, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
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Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
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Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Professor in New Rising World Powers, University of Warwick
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Executive Director, University of Dayton Human Rights Center, University of Dayton
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Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Professor of Migration and Population Studies, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Finance Instructor, Professional Studies Extension Programme, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
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Associate Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Research fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham
