How Will Venezuela’s Ongoing Crisis Impact Colombia’s Peace With the FARC?
In this piece for World Politics Review, WOLA Senior Fellow David Smilde and scholar Dimitris...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Jul 21, 2016 | Articles
In this piece for World Politics Review, WOLA Senior Fellow David Smilde and scholar Dimitris...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Oct 10, 2015 | Multimedia, Podcast
(via https://soundcloud.com/latinpulse/peace-talks-civil-war-colombia-tensions-borders-venezuela-lp10092015?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=tumblr) Listen to Adam Isacson and I do the WOLA tag team on...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Jun 13, 2013 | Analysis
What are the politics of the recent tensions between Venezuela and Colombia? The most recent tensions started when Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos agreed to meet with former presidential candidate and current Miranda...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Jun 6, 2013 | Analysis
Few of us believed the rumors last week that a breakthrough in US-Venezuela relations was in the works. The obstacles seemed too large as the US still had not recognized Nicolas Maduro as the winner of the April 14 election. And...
Read MorePosted by David Smilde | Jun 5, 2013 | Analysis
Last week’s meeting between Miranda governor Henrique Capriles and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos began a sequence of events that has revealed the fragility in what has been heretofore a source of strength for the Maduro...
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