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Venezuela Weekly: Main Opposition Parties Reject December Legislative Election, Present no Alternative
[We will be taking a break next week but will publish the Venezuela Weekly again in third week of...
Read MoreVenezuela Weekly: Discussion of U.S. Venezuela Policy
A few months before the U.S. presidential elections Democrats are discussing potential policy...
Read MoreVideo: Venezuela Urgently Needs to Ramp Up Humanitarian Assistance
In Venezuela, a country that for years has been grappling with widespread shortages of food, medicine, and essential goods, the COVID-19 pandemic is aggravating an already dire humanitarian emergency. By some estimates, Venezuela has just 8 hospital beds per 100,000 people.
Read MoreGeoff Ramsey on NPR: the International Community Faces a ‘Crossroads’ in Venezuela
On July 23, NPR posted an excerpt of a nice conversation I had with John Otis on the difficult...
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Venezuela Weekly
Venezuela Weekly: Discussion of U.S. Venezuela Policy
A few months before the U.S. presidential elections Democrats are discussing potential policy...
Read MoreVenezuela Weekly: Rights Groups Push Back on Government Stigmatization of Return Migrants
The Center for Human Rights of the Universidad Católica Ándres Bello released a report on how the...
Read MoreVenezuela Weekly: Second OHCHR Report Targets Justice System and Orinoco Mining
On July 15, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet presented a...
Read MoreVenezuela Weekly: On Independence Day, Civil Society Calls for a National Accord
On July 5, Venezuela’s Independence Day multiple civil society organizations—from human rights groups, to the union sector, to business associations–released a video and carried out a social media campaign demanding the...
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Venezuela Program
Geoff Ramsey
Director for Venezuela @GRamsey_LatAm
David Smilde
WOLA Senior Fellow and the Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University
@dsmilde