by Gianluca Mangione | Oct 15, 2020 | Northeastern University
With the United States approaching its most contentious election yet, the atmosphere feels like a Latin American déjà vu… As President Hugo Chavez threatened his opponents on live television the night of December 5th of 2007, Venezuelan college students celebrated...
by Madison Smrz | Oct 14, 2020 | University of Georgia
The sweeping reforms of Hugo Chávez not only initiated democratic breakdown within Venezuela, but also signaled a rise in opposition against the increasingly authoritarian regime that remains prevalent to this day. Recently, rising violence in Venezuela by the current...
by Antonietta Paolino | Apr 8, 2020 | Boston University
Venezuela has been going through a twenty year long political and economic rough patch. Beginning with Hugo Chavez in 1998 and now with Nicolas Maduro, almost five million people have had to leave the country in hopes of a better future, my family and I being part of...
by Patrisja Fongwan | Dec 7, 2019 | University of the Philippines, Diliman
Much like the warring families in George R.R. Martin’s bestselling fiction series Game of Thrones, Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro have allies from beyond their borders which, like in the ending of the fictional series, just might determine who will sit on the...
by Ian Henson | May 7, 2019 | University of Chicago
Polarization is certainly a commonly cited cause of why the current governmental system and Congress seem to be unable to get anything substantial done. There are countless news stories about the subject with titles such as “Is America Hopelessly Polarized, or Just...
