Venezuela is suffering a severe and prolonged economic crisis. Processes such as the destruction of the production infrastructure, the weakening of the national oil industry, hyperinflation, currency devaluation, and de facto dollarization are all part of the experience of the Venezuelan population, which suffers every day from the onslaught of the economic collapse.
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As Venezuela’s crisis of authoritarianism deepens, civil society voices are increasingly coming under attack by the de facto government of Nicolás Maduro. On March 30, the Venezuelan Ministry of Interior and Justice published a new requirement in the Official Gazette for the registry
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On April 7, the Center for Legal Studies, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia) published a report...
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In the sixth episode of The Venezuela Briefing, hosts Geoff Ramsey and Kristen Martinez-Gugerli interview military intelligence analyst Andrei Serbin Pont
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After the Guaidó coalition and Maduro government agreed in February to expand the PAHO accord reached in June 2020 to cooperate for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, negotiations are still underway to facilitate the delivery of vaccines through the WHO-linked COVAX initiative.
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On April 6, the Quincy Institute’s Responsible Statecraft published my latest op-ed on the...
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Over the last ten days 4,700 Venezuelans, according to the United Nations estimate, have fled across the border into Colombia as the Venezuelan armed forces carry out an offensive against Colombian guerrilla
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On March 31, a group of over 60 Colombian and Venezuelan NGOs—and over 300 individual advocates...
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On Wednesday, April 7 at 12:00 p.m. EDT (11:00 a.m. in Bogota), Dejusticia (Colombia) and WOLA will be hosting an event to commemorate the launch of a new report entitled “Defending Human Rights in Venezuela: Challenges Facing Civil Society in Confronting the Closure of Democratic Spaces.”
Read MoreLast week I spoke with Venezuelan journalist Vladimir Villegas on his streaming platform, Vladimir...
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