Michael McCarthy

Michael McCarthy

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Can Maduro Play Realpolitick?

Recent geopolitical developments in U.S.-Cuban relations and in international oil markets pose a key question for the Maduro Government. Can the Maduro government follow the lead of two strategic allies, Cuba and Saudi Arabia, and put national interests first? Or does...

Maduro’s Dilemma

On April 1 the party hierarchy of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) quickly pushed back against a “critical open letter to President Maduro” from Chavista intellectual and media figure Nicmer Evans. Evans’s letter suggested that Nicolas Maduro’s candidacy...