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It’s Diosdado Cabello’s world, the rest of Venezuela is just living in it
Venezuela, just over a month after its still-contested presidential election, has made global headlines in the past couple of weeks for its chronic shortages of everything from toilet paper to church...
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‘Pragmatic’ Merentes winning control over Venezuela economic policy, but to...
When Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro appointed Nelson Merentes as his new finance minister shortly after Maduro’s controversial election in April, no one knew whether Merentes would actually be...
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Where Capriles and the Venezuelan opposition go from here
Henrique Capriles’s last hopes of winning a recount in the April 2013 presidential election slipped away earlier this month when the chavista-controlled judicial system dismissed his complaints over...
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Show us the long-form, Nicolás! (In which ‘birtherism’ comes to Venezuela.)
So birtherism isn’t limited to the United States and the tea party movement’s nutty claim that US president Barack Obama was actually born in Kenya and not in the US state of Hawaii. As it turns out,...
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Chavismo offers no solutions for Venezuela’s violent crime
Though Venezuela’s crumbling economy was the top issue in 2013, the country’s violent crime rate is now topping the 2014 agenda after the horrific murder of Mónica Spear, the 29-year-old television...
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Politics turns violent in Venezuela
Though critics can dump a lot of problems on the doorstep of Hugo Chávez’s 14-year reign as president of Venezuela, the one thing that you can’t say about Chávez is that he used state violence (as...
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Venezuela’s opposition supermajority must prioritize recalling Maduro
Henrique Capriles (right) and Leopoldo López (left) campaigned together in the 2013 presidential election. I write Friday for The National Interest a follow-up post on Venezuela’s legislative...
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Venezuela’s disappointing new legislative leader is only slightly better than...
Henry Ramos Allup is set to become the next president of Venezuela’s National Assembly today. Without a doubt, the victory of the anti-chavista opposition in the December 6 elections was one of the...
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The comparison between Sanders and Venezuela is misguided and facile
‘Socialism’ may be at the heart of chavismo and the Sanders campaign, but they come from two very different political traditions. One of the more popular comparisons of critics of Vermont senator...
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Overshadowed by scandal, Trump calls for López’s release in Venezuela
Before Thursday’s jaw-dropping 77-minute free-form press conference, US president Donald Trump made a rare foray into Latin American politics on Wednesday night, publicly calling for the release of...
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