Raúl Castro Stepped Down. How Could It Impact Venezuela?
Ricardo Herrero, executive director of the Cuba Study Group in Washington, D.C., explains how the dependency on the Maduro regime could change with a new generation leading Cuba
Human Rights Watch Claims Abuse Against Civilians in the Apure Conflict
The NGO collected testimonies of raids and executions by the military in the area where the Venezuelan forces are fighting a FARC rogue group
The Globalization of Harina P.A.N.
Empresas Polar already has four factories producing the “official” arepa corn flour in Colombia, the U.S. and Italy. Now, they prepare the next step: frozen products and a restaurant franchise
A New Opposition Alliance Is Born in Venezuela... Again
Out of the Legislative Palace and out of virtually every kind of power space, the parties that still resist chavista rule announced a fresh umbrella organization to fight for legitimate elections
The Pandemic’s Brutal Toll on Venezuelan Doctors and Nurses
NGO Médicos Unidos Venezuela reported 408 healthcare workers had died from of COVID-19 by March 29th. If we trust the official figures, that means one out of every four coronavirus victims was a worker of the healthcare sector
Combat on the Venezuela-Colombia Border: What We Know
The Venezuelan Army has lost at least two officers fighting a group of Colombian irregulars, near the Arauca river. Colombia reports at least 3,000 refugees crossing the border. What does it mean?
The Campaign to Protect Venezuelan Assets in the U.S.
NGO INRAV is working on convincing Congress to create a fund and freeze the Venezuelan resources obtained through corruption and embezzlement, using the VERDAD Act
In the Dirty Basement of Democracies
The Economist’s Democracy Index ranked Venezuela in position 143, out of 167, while Freedom House gave us 14 points (on a 0 to 100 scale). The pandemic (plus Maduro) took us farther from our dream
How Much Should a Venezuelan Refugee Cost?
Brookings insists that the Venezuelan mass migration crisis receives ten times less funding from the international community than Syria’s, despite their comparable magnitude
Sanctions: The New Main Trope in the Chavista Narrative
As populist parties usually do, chavismo has always resorted to victimization as casus belli behind collective vengeance. Now the sanctions are at the center of a patriotic resistance story
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