What Venezuela’s Opposition Can Learn from the Barinas Victory
Rebuilding opposition unity will be key to posing an effective electoral challenge to Chavismo.
Rebuilding opposition unity will be key to posing an effective electoral challenge to Chavismo.
In 2022, the United States will find that after a few initial signs of hope, the hemisphere to which it is intimately bound by ties of geography, commerce, and family is more dangerous, less democratic, less stable, less willing to cooperate, and more engaged than ever with its extra-regional rivals.
Once again Venezuela’s democratic opposition finds itself in an electoral dilemma. This time, though, it’s not (entirely) of their own doing. The moral weight of whether and how to participate in the November 21 regional and local elections hangs more on the European Union.
La prensa escrita en Venezuela simboliza, de forma muy clara, la decisión oficial de dejar al país sin información. No ha sido un accidente, ni puede justificarse por la falta de dólares. Ha sido una decisión política acabar con los periódicos venezolanos.
Sin datos oficiales de PDVSA, todas las cifras de fuentes internacionales indican la muerte de la industria.
Hace 20 años, relacionar el término “dictadura” con el chavismo podía sonar extremo. Hoy, podemos reconstruir los hechos que nos trajeron aquí a partir de la memoria democrática y social.
Without the proper judicial and prosecutorial reforms, the transitional justice provisions included in the U.S.’s transition framework for Venezuela will prove ineffective and worse, erode confidence in the possibilities of justice.