by Jaemin Noh | Apr 20, 2026 | American University, Universities
What do you do when your own country tries to fool you? If elections are the heart of democracy, then Venezuela should be heartless. It still holds elections. People still line up to vote. Politicians still campaign. On paper, the system has not disappeared. But that...
by Chanul Baek | Apr 20, 2026 | George Mason University, Universities
Democracies do not usually collapse in some dramatic moments. There is no single night where everything suddenly falls. Most of time, they fade slowly and almost silently until the day they are not really democracies anymore. That is what happened in Venezuela....
by Bereket Nelson | Mar 29, 2026 | Suffolk University
American Intervention in Venezuela: An Erosion of Democratic Norms In the early hours of January 3, 2026, U.S. military forces conducted an “intervention” in Venezuela’s sovereign territory, seizing and essentially extraditing the acting head of state, Nicolás...
by Maura Kitterick | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University
Trump’s notorious anti-immigration plans have remained ambitious during his second term in office, promising he “will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out.” In just a couple of months since re-entering office,...
by Anusha Anand | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University
On January 10th, 2025, Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated to serve his third consecutive term as the president of Venezuela. This confirmed the results of the presidential election, which took place in July of 2024, although many regarded it as neither credible nor...
