Tag: Venezuela

(USA/Venezuela) New Atlantic Council poll: Insights on Venezuelan and Cuban American sentiments regarding US policy toward Venezuela (Atlantic Council)

Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center Florida is home to the United States’ largest Venezuelan population, with the result that Venezuelan policy often reflects the state’s...

(Venezuela) Venezuelan refugees and their receiving communities need funding, not sympathy (Brookings)

Dany Bahar and Meagan Dooley In late 2019, we released numbers that continue to make headlines today: The Venezuelan refugee crisis was then the most underfunded in modern history. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/02/26/venezuelan-refugees-and-their-receiving-communities-need-funding-not-sympathy/

(Britain/Venezuela) Brexit Britain should take a stand on Venezuela (The Spectator, AEI)

Ryan C. Berg, Dalibor Rohac https://www.aei.org/op-eds/brexit-britain-should-take-a-stand-on-venezuela/

(Venezuela/USA) Venezuela’s Maduro hopes for ‘better relations’ with US (Al Jazeera)

The Venezuelan president urges the country’s parliament to ‘take initiatives’ towards a ‘new beginning’ with Washington. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/21/venezuela-maduro-hopes-for-better-relations-with-us

(USA/Venezuela) Trump administration imposes Venezuelan oil-related sanctions (Al Jazeera)

The United States Treasury targeted three individuals, 14 entities and six vessels for their alleged ties to a network attempting to assist Venezuela’s oil...

(Venezuela) Venezuela mulls letting private firms operate state oilfields (Al Jazeera)

Venezuelan officials have met in recent months with small domestic oilfield contractors to propose letting them operate fields owned by state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela...

VENEZUELA – Venezuela Supreme Court rules parliament’s term extension invalid (Al Jazeera)

Venezuela’s Supreme Court has ruled that a move by the opposition-controlled National Assembly to extend its term an additional year was invalid, paving the...

VENEZUELA – Venezuela says ‘overloading’ caused deadly migrant boat sinking (Al Jazeera)

Authorities in Venezuela have said a boat carrying dozens of migrants towards Trinidad and Tobago sank earlier this month because there were too many...

VENEZUELA – What Lies Ahead after Election Clinches Maduro’s Clean Sweep (Crisis Group)

Following legislative elections, President Nicolás Maduro controls all of Venezuela’s major political institutions. Meanwhile, the country’s crisis deepens apace. An exit remains possible if...

VENEZUELA – Venezuela’s opposition needs a new strategy (Antulio Rosales, Maryhen Jimenez Morales, Al Jazeera)

This year has been incredibly difficult for the people of Venezuela. The humanitarian emergency, economic hardship, rampant inequality, and forced displacement were compounded by...

VENEZUELA – President Maduro claims victory in boycotted election (Al Jazeera)

President Nicolas Maduro has seized total control of Venezuela’s political institutions with a sweeping victory in legislative elections that were boycotted by the main...

VENEZUELA – Venezuela vote likely to give Maduro’s party control of Congress (Al Arabiya)

Venezuelan President Maduro during an interview with the Venezuelan journalist Ernesto Villegas, in Caracas, August 23, 2020. (AFP) Venezuela’s congressional election on Sunday will almost...

CARRIBEAN NATIONS/VENEZUELA – Boats over troubled waters: Caribbean nations struggle with response to Venezuelan migration crisis (Angela Chávez Keri and Beatriz Godoy Rivas, Atlantic...

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/boats-over-troubled-waters-caribbean-nations-struggle-with-response-to-venezuelan-migration-crisis/

VENEZUELA – Screening and Discussion of “A La Calle” (CFR)

Speakers Rebecca Bill Chavez Nonresident Senior Fellow, Inter-American Dialogue; CFR Member Leopoldo Lopez Venezuelan Democratic Leader; Member of the Venezuelan Interim Government; Prisoner of Conscience according to Amnesty...

INDIA/IRAN/VENEZUELA/USA – India looks to resume Iran, Venezuela oil imports under Biden (Al Jazeera)

India wants to diversify its oil imports, including the resumption of supplies from Iran and Venezuela, after US President-elect Joe Biden takes office, oil...