As democracy unravels and hunger spreads, Venezuelan youth must decide whether to join the resistance or build their lives abroad.
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Musicians who learned how to play through a state-funded program called El Sistema are taking their instruments to the streets to protest the government.
Protests in South Africa are about more than just service delivery of basic services such as water and electricity. They reflect a wider crisis about the failure to build a more equitable society.
The president has fled the country. An activist has died in jail. A military coup is afoot. Fake news is dividing Venezuelans, making a peaceful end to its profound crisis ever less likely.
But there is a stand-off on the left of the political spectrum.
(UPDATED) If the military abandons Venezuela’s power-grabbing president, it’s game over for the Maduro regime.
Fed up with an increasingly authoritarian government, Venezuelans are taking to the streets – where they are met with violence.
Rather than an outright coup, Venezuela’s government has slowly eroded its democratic institutions and processes, until now.
When leaders of weak democracies use social media to connect with their constituents, people feel heard. But Twitter responses won’t give citizens what they need.
Venezuelans, fleeing hunger and repression at home, have surpassed Central Americans as the top US asylum-seekers.
It was popular music that enabled Chávez to link his political movement with grassroots activism.
Venezuela’s major crises will continue in 2017. These include ongoing economic instability, over-reliance on the price of oil, shortages of food and electricity and increasing inequality. At the core is…
The world is on edge as Donald Trump enters the White House.
Venezuela and ExxonMobil have been spatting over oil for decades. How will that history impact relations under a Rex Tillerson-run State Department?
Empty toy stores, bakeries without bread and families who can’t travel to be together. This is the year that the government Grinch stole Christmas.
More than any other, Venezuela is a country of Cuba’s making. But its own national tragedy is too deep for most citizens to mourn Fidel Castro’s death.
In a time of hunger and violence, Venezuela’s proposed peace talks are narrowly focused on power distribution. But where’s the seat for the countries citizens?
There are fears that the withdrawal of countries from the ICC would mark the end of international criminal justice in Africa. This need not be the case.
Facing shortages in food and medicines, extreme political polarisation, and a spiraling economic crisis, Venezuelans find it hard to care about the adventures of Clinton v. Trump.
The Non-Aligned Movement member states enjoy cohesion on few issues. Historically, their heterogeneity ranged from absolute monarchs to socialist presidents.
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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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Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton 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 Latin American Studies, Sociology and Criminology, University of Florida
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Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University; Institute for Humane Studies
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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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Research Associate, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Director of the Center for Political Studies, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello