Venezuela
República Bolivariana de Venezuela
Is Venezuela Becoming a Failed State?
Juan Nagel, Transitions
How Is Latin America? Could Be Better
Carlos A. Montaner, Miami H'ld
How to Steal an Election in Venezuela
Roger Noriega, Miami Herald
Obama Doesn't Respect Venezuela
Nicolas Maduro, Le Monde/Worldcrunch
Venezuela's Government Teeters
Carlos Montaner, Miami Herald
Venezuela remains mired in a political and economic crisis that shows no signs of letting up. But while street protests, soaring inflation, scarcity, and skyrocketing crime are mas...(full article)
How's Latin America? It depends. In my opinion, its performance is mediocre. It could be a lot better....(full article)
As the facts behind Nicolás Maduro’s fabricated electoral “victory” on April 14 are disclosed, his legitimacy and ability to govern will be decimated. Reams of confidential ...(full article)
Originally published in Le Monde. CARACAS - In this exclusive interview with Le Monde, his first for any international media since his recent victory in the April 14 Venezuelan pre...(full article)
In Venezuela, Iris Varela, minister of prisons, a young lawyer with fiery eyes and incendiary speech, has warned that she has already prepared the cell in which Henrique Capriles w...(full article)
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The Death of Chavismo's Legitimacy - Roger Noriega, The American
Is the election in Venezuela over? Apparently not. The self-declared winner, Nicolás Maduro, is behaving very much like a man who knows he lost on April 14. In resorting to viol...
Post-Chavez, A 'Hard Hand' in Venezuela - Washington Post
The real danger in Venezuela is not that an Obama administration unwilling to provide leadership in Syria would make any serious attempt to prevent Mr. Maduro’s consolidation of ...
America's Stealth Subversion in Venezuela - Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian
On Wednesday, secretary of state John Kerry, affirming before Congress the US refusal to recognise Venezuela's elections, referred to Latin America as the United States's "back yar...
Latin America's 'Wiki-Constitutionalism' - Jose Azel, Miami Herald
Latin America has the world’s most tortuous constitutional history. According to a study of constitutions around the world by Jose Luis Cordeiro, 19 of the 21 Latin American nati...
Winners and Losers in Venezuela's Election - Charles Shapiro, LA Times
Nicolas Maduro's victory may be only skin-deep, and there is an upside to Henrique Capriles' loss....
Venezuela's Election Aftermath - Christopher Sabatini, CNN
It wasn’t supposed to go this way. When the Venezuelan government announced in March that it would hold elections on April 14 to replace the deceased former President Hugo Chá...
Venezuelans Dig In for Long Fight - Girish Gupta, Time
On a hill in west of Caracas, the 23 de Enero slum stands as the flagship of Hugo Chávez’s socialist dream. His body currently lies in a military museum here which overlooks ...
Maduro Shoves Aside Democracy in Venezuela - Washington Post
The attempt by the followers of Hugo Chavez to install a successor to the dead caudillo through a one-sided election is faltering. Now the Venezuelan regime appears to be preparing...
Capriles Strikes a Blow to Chavismo - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
The fact is that Venezuela’s opposition has emerged invigorated after Sunday’s vote, and that it will be hard for Maduro to impose a Cuban-styled dictatorship. Unless he allow...
Venezuela's Mad Max Reality - John Paul Rathbone, The World
One way to imagine yourself into the Venezuelan mindset is to picture yourself in an old fashioned American automobile – a yank tank – cruising along one of the rain-st...
Hugo Chavez Cannot Rule from the Grave - Gulf News
Maduro must quickly build his own support base, independent of the one bequeathed him by Chavez, in order to put nation back on the right course....
Will Venezuela's Stolen Election Stand? - Benny Avni, New York Post
The government stole the election right from the start, but for now a politician who wants to save Venezuela from its ruinous path won’t concede defeat, so things may get ugly ...
Maduro's Hollow Victory in Venezuela - Peter Wilson, Foreign Policy
Marcos Oropeza is sure that Henrique Capriles Radonski won Sunday, April 14's presidential election; Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) says otherwise. "The council allo...
Maduro Victory Could Speed End of Chavismo - Jon Perdue, Commentator
As the fragile ground of Chavismo without Chavez begins to crumble under the feet of Maduro, those once willing to tolerate the clownery of Chavez may begin to seek more solid grou...
Chavez Revolt Will Continue in My Presidency - Nicolas Maduro, Guardian
Venezuela has lost an extraordinary leader, but his democratic and socialist project of transformation is more alive than ever....
Trouble Has Just Begun in Venezuela - Kevin Lees, The New Republic
Chávez's hand-picked successor, Nicolás Maduro, was officially declared the winner of Sunday's snap presidential election by the Chavista-controlled CNE with a victor...
Chavez Is Dead, but His Vote Machine Lives On - Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Venezuela's presidential vote Sunday will be a test of party passions, but also the late leader's powerful political organization....
The Reckoning After Venezuela's Election - Washington Post
Disturbingly, Latin American democracies and the Obama administration appear ready to legitimate Mr. Maduro’s takeover, despite the OAS’s democracy charter, a treaty th...
Where Hugo Chavez Still Rules - Girish Gupta, Time
Under the sweltering sun of Venezuela’s Los Llanos, a vast savannah famous for its cowboys and revolutionaries, 60-year-old Adán Chávez speaks passionately to...
5 Venezuela Scenarios - Most Bad - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Most polls show that Venezuela’s government candidate Nicolás Maduro is likely to win Sunday’s elections thanks to an unfair election process in which the government controls ...
In Venezuela, a Tale of 2 Presidential Candidates - Jim Wyss, Miami H'ld
One is a former union organizer and foreign minister who skipped university to pursue politics. He rose to fame as the loyal soldier of late President Hugo Chavez. The other is a g...
The Fading Light of Chavismo in Latin America - Fabio Rafael Fiallo, RCW
By bringing Venezuela's economy to an unprecedented state of disarray despite record high global oil prices, progressively dismantling the country's checks and balances and by prov...
Tough Times Ahead in Post-Chavez Venezuela - Fabiola Sanchez, AP
Doing business in post-Hugo Chavez Venezuela is not for the faint of heart. Thousands of companies suffer under currency controls that all but deny them the U.S. dollars they need ...
No Clear Leader of Latin America Left - Mimi Whitefield, Miami Herald
Venezuelans will head to the polls April 14 to elect a successor to the late President Hugo Chávez. While Nicolás Maduro, Chávez’s handpicked candidate, ...
Chavez's Legacy of Conflict and Propaganda - Thor Halvorssen, Reason
That human rights and liberal democracy had a rough time under Chavez is beyond question to the reasonable observer. And it remains to be seen whether after his death the situation...
An Election in the Shadow of Chavez - Peter Wilson, Foreign Policy
Venezuelan presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski is hoping to complete a trifecta of victories against the country's vice presidents in next month's election to choose ...
France Readies for Its Own Chavez - Fabio Rafael Fiallo, RealClearWorld
Opinion polls suggest that a growing number of French seem ready to jump into the unknown and place their confidence and hopes in a demagogue willing to redistribute income irresp...
Free Speech Under Fire in Latin America - Washington Post
Hugo Chavez may be dead, but the offensive he led against democratic institutions in Venezuela and across Latin America has not slackened. In fact, it may be accelerating, especial...
What Happens to Venezuela's Oil Now? - Roben Farzad, Bloomberg BW
Investors have been cart-before-horse stoked about Venezuela, and with good reason. There’s lots of upside in an economy that arguably has the world’s largest proven ...
Maybe Chavez Won't Go on Display After All - The Commentator
Venezuela's acting President, Nicolas Maduro, has cast doubt over the likelihood of Hugo Chavez’s body being embalmed. It was reported last week that Chavez was to join the l...
The Idiotic Cult of Hugo Chavez - Bernard Henri-Levy, The Daily Beast
Leaving aside his anti-Semitism and his dictator allies, why would the left celebrate a man who repressed his people and wrecked the economy? It’s an insult to Venezuelans....
Maduro Inherits a Broken Venezuela - Michael Penfold, Foreign Affairs
Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez’s anointed heir, is expected to cruise to victory in Venezuela's upcoming presidential elections. But the easy part ends there. Once in office, Ma...
Was 'Hugonomics' Good for Venezuela? - Daniel Altman, Foreign Policy
What is the economic legacy of Hugo Chávez? A common criticism is that by changing how Venezuela sliced its economic pie, he also reduced the size of the pie for his fellow citize...
Next Venezuelan Gov't Should Move Country to Center - Globe and Mail
Venezuela's acting president, Nicolas Maduro, has revealed a clear strategy to win election next month to replace his late mentor, Hugo Chavez: cast himself as much as possible as ...
Chavez and Bo: Death of a Political Model? - A. Nicholson, Tea Leaf Nation
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s death on March 5, 2013 came in the same week as the “Two Sessions” began in China, when China’s national legislature me...
Chavez the Fake Redeemer - Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal
Barack Obama's first term was not kind to many Americans. Yet when a presidential-election exit poll in November asked voters which candidate "cares about people like me," Pres...
Hugo Chavez Was Right About Poverty - James Carroll, Boston Globe
HUGO CHAVEZ was a buffoon and a demagogue. But was that all? Upon his death last week, the Venezuelan president was remembered in the United States for many things: his rambling s...
Venezuela Needs a Visionary - JoongAng Daily
Hugo Chavez, whose death was pronounced March 5 was a Venezuelan strongman and a powerful force not only in his country but within the Latin American bloc. During his 14 years in p...
What Fidel Castro Taught Hugo Chavez - Francisco Toro, The Australian
At the root of the extraordinarily close alliance Chavez built with Cuba was a deep, paternal bond between two men. A fiercely independent figure, the messianic Chavez was never se...
Washington's Venezuela Dilemma - Nikolas Gvosdev, World Politics Review
Most of the U.S. foreign policy community assumes that relations between the United States and Venezuela can only improve in the aftermath of Hugo Chavez's death. Exemplifying this...
Chavez: Good Timing, Bad Leadership - David Frum, National Post
Venezuela won’t bury Hugo Chavez. It will embalm him and put him on display. The old autocrat wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Chavez lived his life as a performa...
Chavez's Death a Huge Opportunity for Venezuela - Lawrence Haas, IBT
The death of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez prompts two questions, the answers to which will have enormous implications not just for his country but for the United States, Latin ...
How China Propped Up Hugo Chavez - Sanderson & Forsythe, FP
Hugo Chávez, resplendent in crisply pressed fatigues and paratrooper boots with red shoelaces, had a very special guest. Meeting him that day in mid-September 2011 in Caracas was ...
Seize This Moment to Forge Ties with Venezuela - Jesse Jackson, CNN
On Thursday night, I returned to Caracas, Venezuela, to participate in the funeral and mourning of Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela from 1999 until his passing this week. Chavez...
What Chavez's Obituaries Reveal - Mike Madden, This Week in Death
The first obituaries for Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez appeared almost immediately after his death Tuesday at 58. Which was no surprise: A gleefully anti-American socialist w...