by Brieana Burke | May 5, 2019 | Georgia State University
Democracy was a damaged project in Latin America before the current crisis in Venezuela. Military coups d’état and other violent seizures of power in the 1960s and 1970s were followed by weak attempts at re-democratization (Riggirozzi, 2019). In the 1980s oil...
by Randolph Kent | May 3, 2019 | Georgetown University
In what could prove to be an enormous blunder, Juan Guaido, Venezuela’s opposition leader, launched a failed coup to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro three days ago. The attempted coup ignored how deeply the Venezuelan military elite is tied to the Maduro...
by Luis Sierra | Apr 21, 2019 | University of Chicago
In Venezuela, President Nicholas Maduro has managed to remain in power even as the country continues through protests and a worsening economic crisis. Even after Juan Guiado the opposition leader proclaimed himself as the interim president of the country and has been...
by David Ardila | Apr 21, 2019 | University of Chicago
The Venezuelan regime has essentially run out of vocal supporters in the international scene. A decade ago, several prominent public figures and politicians praised and defended the Chavez regime as an economic miracle, proudly pointing to falling poverty rates and...
by Kimberly Stewart | Apr 9, 2019 | Utah State University
The recent stand-off in Venezuela between the authoritarian Maduro regime and the opposition movement has sparked discussion about whether or not the opposition will manage to restore democracy since it was dismantled in the early 2000s. The strategies taken by the...
