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In the Corridors of Dissent: Understanding Opposition Congresses in Latin America

Jeffery Allen Tobin | August 22, 2023

While opposition congresses play a crucial role in ensuring checks and balances in Latin American democracies, the complexities they introduce are ...
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Will the left in Ecuador buck the downward regional trend?

Patricio Navia | January 13, 2017

In recent elections across the world, incumbent candidates have faced an uphill battle. Ecuadoreans might buck the trend in the upcoming election of ...
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Time for a call from the Venezuelan opposition to President-elect Trump?

Evan Ellis | December 12, 2016

President-elect Trump’s call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen may provide a model for what he could do for Venezuela. With all the democratic options ...
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What’s wrong with a little dialogue?

Juan Nagel | June 15, 2016

The international community is trying to encourage the Venezuelan government and the opposition to sit down to a dialogue. But democratic dialogue ...
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Venezuela’s disappointing opposition

Juan Nagel | April 14, 2016

The new majority in the National Assembly has failed in offering economic alternatives and in confronting Venezuela’s political crisis. Despite being a ...
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Entrevista con Jesús Armas

Mishella Romo | February 16, 2016

Según Consejal Jesus Armas, "Ya no es una lucha entre gobierno y oposición, sino que, se ha convertido en una lucha entre el pueblo y un gobierno que nos ...
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The transition has only just begun in Venezuela

Andrés Cañizález | February 11, 2016

The December 6, 2015 elections brought positive change for Venezuela, but this is only the beginning in a long process that is likely to be complicated ...
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Venezuela’s Supermajority Reconsidered

Tony Spanakos | January 8, 2016

Any numerical representation of people has institutional and moral consequences. This is especially so in Venezuela where Chavistas consistently had a ...
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Venezuela and the Consequences of Shoddy Electoral Observation

Christopher Sabatini | January 7, 2016

If the absence of protests or conflict on an election day is an indicator of success, then the success of the Union of South American Nations’ (UNASUR’s) ...
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An Ominous Opening for Venezuela’s New Parliament

Juan Nagel | January 7, 2016

For the first time in the 17 years since the late Hugo Chávez swept into power, the opposition has firm control of one of the branches of government. This ...
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