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Venezuela

Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of political, economic, and security issues in Venezuela, past and present.

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Venezuela’s Endless Crisis

A Mafia State Slides Toward Anarchy

Moisés Naím and Francisco Toro

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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela

Venezuela’s Authoritarian Allies: The Ties That Bind?

Two Spies in Caracas: A Novel

La infinita crisis venezolana

Venezuela’s Endless Crisis

Estados Unidos ayuda a sobrevivir al régimen de Venezuela

The United States Helps Venezuela’s Regime Survive

A Perfect Storm for Venezuela

Latin America’s Prison Gangs Draw Strength From the Pandemic

The Pandemic Could Bring Power to Latin America’s Criminal Gangs

El problema de Venezuela no es el socialismo

Venezuela’s Problem Isn’t Socialism

The Collapse of Venezuela

The Collapse of Venezuela

Why Latin America Was Primed to Explode

Plan B in Venezuela

The Venezuelan Refugee Crisis Is Not Just a Regional Problem

Power and Paranoia in Caracas

Preparing for a Venezuela After Maduro

Use Venezuelan Assets to Help Venezuelan Refugees

Why Venezuela’s Regime Hasn’t Collapsed

Will Guaidó Call for U.S. Military Intervention?

Trump’s Flawed Plan to Oust Maduro

What a Military Intervention in Venezuela Would Look Like

Will Maduro’s Supporters Abandon Him?

How South America Ceded the Field in Venezuela

The Venezuelan Opposition’s High-Stakes Assault on Maduro

El suicidio de Venezuela

Latin America Is Facing a Refugee Crisis

Venezuela’s Suicide

Take Back Venezuela With Votes, Not Violence

The Tragedy of the Venezuelan Opposition

When Is It Time to End Sanctions Programs?

How to Avoid a Venezuelan Civil War

Venezuela After the Constituent Assembly

Mediation in Venezuela Is Doomed to Fail

Venezuela’s Bad Neighbor Policy

Getting Venezuela to Behave

The Final Blow to Venezuela’s Democracy

Venezuela’s Addiction

Venezuela on the Brink

Venezuela’s Risky Recall?

Maduro Cracks Down

Venezuela's Meltdown Continues

Nationalization and Its Discontents

Venezuela, Devalued

Chavez's Revenge

Chavismo in Pieces

Venezuela's Moment of Truth

Crackdown in Caracas

The Caracas Context

A Revolution in Green

Crime and Punishment in Venezuela

More Chavismo than Chávez

Maduro Moves Up

Chavismo After Chávez

How Chavez Does Business

Capriles Radonski and the New Venezuelan Opposition

What to Read on Venezuela

The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized

The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chávez and the War Against America

Revolutionary Road?

An Empty Revolution

Slouching Toward Authoritarianism

In Search of Hugo Chávez

The Venezuelan Oil Crisis

Presidents Without Parties: The Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s

Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era: Class, Polarization and Conflict

Venezuela's Worsening Political Crisis

Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela

The United States and Venezuela: Rethinking a Relationship

Will Chavez Lose His Luster?

The Uneasy Americas

The Long Shadow of Hugo Chávez: A Sympathetic Book Defends Venezuela's Strongman

Venezuela and the United States: From Monroe's Hemisphere to Petroleum's Empire

Venezuela: Tarnished Democracy

Venezuela's Movimiento Al Socialismo: From Guerrilla Defeat To Innovative Politics

Demystifying Contadora

Agrarian Reform in Latin America

View from Caracas

The Third Round

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