Leopoldo López: Symbol & Victim
For anyone following Venezuela’s unending tragedy, the sentencing of Leopoldo López to nearly 14 years in prison was hardly surprising.
For anyone following Venezuela’s unending tragedy, the sentencing of Leopoldo López to nearly 14 years in prison was hardly surprising.
To what extent is Venezuela a national security threat to the United States?
What does 2015 hold in store for Venezuela?
Might Maduro be forced out of office before his term is scheduled to expire in 2019?
Protests over the past two months have resulted in 41 deaths, over 650 injured, and hundreds more imprisoned.
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is struggling to manage a deteriorating political and economic situation.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro this month made a three-day visit to China, his first official state trip abroad since taking office. Was the trip a success?
Venezuela’s stalemate will not last forever, but an immediate and easy return to democracy is highly unlikely. The quicker the opposition and its international supporters adapt their strategies to this hard reality, the sooner the country can begin to find a way out of this unprecedented crisis.
Tamara Taraciuk Broner, directora del Programa sobre Estado de derecho, conversó con BBC News sobre la situación en Venezuela tras la salida de Edmundo González a España.
President Donald Trump’s decision last month to increase sanctions on Cuba represents a strategic error with serious long-term repercussions for U.S. national security.
While the crisis in Venezuela is primarily humanitarian in nature, international involvement has escalated to the point where a discussion of the geopolitics surrounding the issue is both appropriate and timely. To that end, the Inter-American Dialogue co-hosted a discussion on May 21 titled “Is the Venezuela Crisis Becoming a Proxy Conflict?” with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
On October 22nd, 2019 the United States Institute for Peace hosted an event on “A Negotiated Solution for Venezuela: Prospects for a Peaceful and Inclusive Settlement” in partnership with the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Inter-American Dialogue, and Woodrow Wilson Center’s Latin America Program.
For more than 15 years, the United States has been imposing a wide variety of economic sanctions against Venezuela, claiming the South American country has aided in drug trafficking, sponsored terrorism, and committed human rights abuses. Tamara Taraciuk Broner, Director of Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue spoke with Al Jazeera about this important issue.
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ views on the presidential elections in Venezuela.
Tamara Taraciuk Broner, director of the Rule of Law Program, spoke with Al Jazeera about Venezuela’s presidential election that took place on July 28 2024, and the post-electoral repression.