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The Colombia-Venezuela border has long fuelled cycles of violence in Colombia. It’s now the main sticking point in any Venezuelan efforts to transition to democracy and the rule of law.
The American operation in Venezuela was completely unprecedented. The outcome promises to be risky for Donald Trump, a Latin American expert explains.
How various factions respond to the Trump administration’s threat to be the de facto ruler of the country could quickly inflame domestic tensions and lead to conflict.
The capture of Nicolas Maduro marks a return to gunboat diplomacy, or as the US president says: the ‘Donroe doctrine’.
Months of preparation and intelligence gathering went into the mission to seize Venezuela’s president in Caracas.
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 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.
José Antonio Kast, who has run for the presidency several times, successfully seized on widespread dissatisfaction over issues like crime and immigration.
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.
Protestant churches’ growth in Latin America gets lots of attention, but another important shift is happening, too: people leaving organized religion altogether.
Many of Operation Condor’s crimes remain shrouded in impunity and silence, 50 years after its creation.
Jair Bolsonaro is now expected to begin a 27-year prison sentence for trying to stage a coup in 2022.
An ancient band of thousands of precisely aligned small pits stretching 1.5 kilometres across the Pisco Valley in Peru has baffled experts for almost a century.
Covert ops and military buildup in the Caribbean suggest Washington is eying a regime change. But are conditions ripe in Venezuela?
A common US-centric narrative holds that the Cuban missile crisis ended when Washington stood firm against the Soviets. But that story ignores a whole continent.
There are opportunities to support the aim of opening up borders through incremental initiatives and reforms.
Peru’s culinary popularity masks shocking inequality and food insecurity among the country’s indigenous peoples.
Brazil’s democracy stands firm with conviction of Jair Bolsonaro over coup attempt.
Supreme Court justices voted 4-1 to convict former Brazilian president over a 2023 plot to overturn election.
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Executive Director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University; King's College London
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Professor of Management and Organization, University of Southern California
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Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business, University of Birmingham
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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University
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Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton
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Research fellow at the International Development Department, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Latin American Politics, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Modern Latin America History, University of Denver
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Human Security, University of Baltimore
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Postgraduate Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, La Trobe University
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Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
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PhD student of law, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
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Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Director of Studies at the Changing Character of War Centre, and Senior Research Fellow, Dept. of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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Co-Director, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, and Professor of Public Administration, Binghamton University, State University of New York