Hugo Pérez Hernáiz is a Venezuelan sociologist and translator. He has taught at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
For the past year we have been working on a project looking at the Catholic Church as a site of conflict and cooperation during Chavismo, especially during the Maduro era. Of course we've written on the blog about this over the years. Last week we published a piece in...
Last week Nicolás Maduro told reporters that he had sent a letter to Pope Francis asking him “to put his best effort and will, so he can help us in the path to dialogue.” Juan Guaidó, the president designated by the National Assembly, also called “on all those who can...
Students at Universidad Católica Ándres Bello. ©Rodrigo Romero This post is part of our updated series on higher education in Venezuela (read here and here). For our previous series on the topic read here and here. A day after Maduro’s economic announcements of August...
“The new Spanish government is going to put more emphasis, if possible, on the need to find political solutions to the situation in Venezuela, which won’t get resolved with only sanctions,” declared Spain’s Foreign Minister, Josep Borrell. He made these declarations...
The mysterious death of city councilman of the Libertador Municipality (Caracas) Fernando Albán has shaken up Venezuelan politics. While the government says he committed suicide by jumping out of a tenth story window of the intelligence police (SEBIN) headquarters,...
“Spain will not interfere in Venezuela,” said Spanish president Pedro Sánchez on August 28, in a joint press conference with Chile’s President, Sebastián Piñera. “Spain has no aspirations to become a country with a vocation for interference in Latin American politics,...
On July 16 president Maduro announced a new citizen security initiative called “Great Socialist Mission Quadrants of Peace” (Gran Misión Socialista Cuadrantes de Paz). “Mission” is the term used for the government’s social welfare programs, and “Great Missions” are...
The IV Congress of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will convene in Caracas from July 28 to 30, in a context in which it holds power unopposed, but is unpopular and presides over a governance disaster. The power structure of the PSUV is...
Online poster commemorating fifteenth anniversary of the Bolivarian University of Venezuela. (This is the second part of our updated series on higher education in Venezuela. For our previous series on the topic read here and here.) The 15th anniversary of the...
This week Venezuela's opposition dominated National Assembly held a session to discuss the country's transportation crisis and ask the government to declare a national emergency. Economic crisis and hyperinflation mean that many Venezuelans living in cities are...