The lost opposition: Democracy dies in Venezuela?
As Venezuela falls into ever more tumultuous times, President Nicolás Maduro has tried to hit the final nail in democracy’s coffin. Now opposition parties are a thing of the past,… Read more »
Tag: Venezuela
Venezuela’s accelerating dictatorship learning from North Korea?
For a man in charge of a country in the grips of hyperinflation and on the verge of humanitarian crisis, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro seems peculiarly self-assured, the Financial Times reports:… Read more »
Inadequate understanding of democratic backsliding delays countervailing action
Academic and policy communities have often focused their attention on the causes of democratic backsliding at the expense of understanding the process. But far less attention has been paid to the sequencing,… Read more »
Maduro’s ‘sticking power’: Venezuela shows problems of countering backsliding
The recent history of Venezuela shows that neither domestic opposition nor the international community are always able to push back on the retreat from democracy, according to Geoffrey Macdonald, the… Read more »
Venezuela: Russia’s latest satellite state?
The restructuring negotiations over Venezuela’s debt entail a complex geopolitical poker game, the Financial Times reports: With the exception of bondholders, for the other five players sitting round the table… Read more »
Midwives or gravediggers? The military’s impact on democracy
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has cracked down on dissidents by force and run roughshod over the country’s democratic institutions. Maduro has handpicked cronies to head a constituent assembly to rewrite… Read more »
Venezuela opposition wins Sakharov human rights prize
Bonds issued by Venezuela and state oil firm PDVSA dropped sharply on Thursday amid concerns cash-flow problems and regulatory hurdles may leave PDVSA unable to make more than $2 billion… Read more »
How an Oval Office meeting changed U.S. policy toward Venezuela
President Trump’s decision to suddenly announce a major change in U.S. policy toward Venezuela in February began with an unexpected Oval Office meeting with Lilian Tintori, the wife of the… Read more »
Venezuela’s boliburguesía ‘kleptolobby’ highlights perils of populism
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is in Moscow, where he is due to hold talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin said earlier that Maduro will meet with Putin… Read more »
Venezuela: the right way to do regime change
Given the U.S. administration’s strong rhetoric against Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuelan dictatorship, it seems odd that the U.S. has not yet used many of the non-military arrows in its policy quiver,… Read more »