If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy.
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The US intervention in Venezuela makes it clear NZ’s ‘softly softly’ foreign policy isn’t a feasible long-term response to a shifting world order.
Months of preparation and intelligence gathering went into the mission to seize Venezuela’s president in Caracas.
The US intervention in Venezuela does not represent a break from past practice.
Many experts warn the already eroded UN Charter is now nearing collapse.
President Donald Trump has said the US will ‘run’ Venezuela until a ‘safe, proper and judicious transition’ can take place. But that still leaves many options.
The US capture of Nicolás Maduro opens a new era in international relations.
The operation in Venezuela has echoes of Panama in 1989. But in ordering President Maduro’s capture, Trump has broken with long-standing US policy in Latin America.
Congress has a legal, constitutional and even moral responsibility to assert itself as a branch when it comes to military actions by the US, says an expert on war powers.
The US has captured the Venezuelan president, but whether this will lead to wholesale regime change remains unclear.
Listen to Pablo Uchoa, an expert in Venezuelan military scenario planning, on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
And what does America’s new national security strategy mean for Europe?
Venezuela relies on the black-market oil trade for a large chunk of its revenue. US enforcement actions may push down the price it can charge, further squeezing the country’s economy.
The world’s largest warship is now patrolling the Caribbean north of Venezuela. It carries 4,000 US sailors and 75 fighter jets. We’ve been tracking it for the past week.
US forces have seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, a move Caracas has called an ‘act of piracy’.
US intervention in Latin America could put China’s influence there in jeopardy.
The Trump administration deems the Venezuela-based Cartel de los Soles a terrorist organisation, but there are doubts over whether it actually exists.
US interventions in the region have led to coups, revolutions and what some analysts are now calling illegal extrajudicial killings.
A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.
Covert ops and military buildup in the Caribbean suggest Washington is eying a regime change. But are conditions ripe in Venezuela?
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Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor, Universidad Central de Venezuela
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Fellow in Business and Human Rights, UCL
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
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Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Global Studies, Appalachian State University
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Researcher, UCL
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Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor of Latin American Studies, Sociology and Criminology, University of Florida
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Director of the Center for Political Studies, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
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Professor of History, Temple University
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Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
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Professor of Migration and Population Studies, Universidad Central de Venezuela