Category: Venezuela Weekly

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...

After the European Union (EU) sanctioned eleven Venezuelan officials, Nicolás Maduro announced he was giving EU Ambasador Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa 72 hours to leave the country, saying the sanctions were evidence of European...

All of these are probably over-interpretations, as the clearest takeaways seem to be: how lightly Trump seems to take Venezuela and Guaidó, how poorly informed the administration is about Venezuela, and how little planning they have done for anything other than a quick push for regime change.

The Maduro government is using the Supreme Court (TSJ) to marginalize the dominant opposition coalition led by National Assembly president Juan Guaidó and create a new opposition more amenable to its plans. On Friday June 12 the...

Esta es esencialmente la misma propuesta que se debatió el verano pasado como parte de las negociaciones mediadas por Noruega, con una gran diferencia. Viniendo menos de una semana después de acusar a los jefes de todas las ramas principales del gobierno de Maduro, parecería que la Administración Trump está tratando de cablear a quien creen que no debería ser parte de una transición. Este fue un punto de discordia principal durante las negociaciones del verano pasado con Estados Unidos reacios a respaldar cualquier plan de transición que permitiera a Maduro presidir nuevas elecciones.

The possibilities for broadly accepted legislative elections this year seem to be fading. Venezeula’s Supreme Court (TSJ) ruled last week that the National Assembly had failed to name new rectors to the directorate the...

The muted response reveals once again the political tight-rope walked by Juan Guaidó as he tries to attend to civil society and moderates’ demands to attend to the population’s needs, while keeping on board radicals who think any relief only helps Maduro. Opposition leader Antonio Ledezma, exiled in Madrid, tweeted that as long as Maduro’s “poisonous regime” is in power “no health plan will be worthwhile.”