...Christopher Reeve © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute Photo: Christopher Reeve CARACAS, Venezuela—“This is the first time I feel like an emigrant,” says Evelyn, who calls herself a “free spirit,” and whose name has been changed out of fear of retaliation. She...

...Alejandro Cegarra Alejandro Cegarra 's photographs and essay reveal a Venezuela that is more dangerous, more unequal, and poorer than in any time in recent history. PORTFOLIO Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, Spring 2017 © 2017 World Policy Institute DOI: 10.1215/07402775...

.... Venezuela’s “Civil Society Coup” Omar G. Encarnación The events of this past April that led to the human rights, governmental transparency, brief removal from power of Hugo Chavez and protection of the environment. Present­ Frias, Venezuela’s mercurial president, ly...

... the routine competition between Christian and Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist, Taoist and Communist, there are many locations where two powers—religious and secular—come into direct conflict, and vast gulfs open up. “out of 120 people in my class at hebraica, there must be barely 20 still living in venezuela...

... The world’s problems are rarely new. There are always precedents that should inform today’s most crucial decisions. World Policy Journal asked five experts from the United Kingdom, Burundi, Chile, Turkey, and Venezuela what lessons from history keep being forgotten. Copyright © 2016 World Policy...

...Marco Aponte-Moreno; Lance Lattig Still, in the interim, any international, or especially American, response to Chávez’s rhetoric or the actions that flow from it must take on substantially different forms than what historically has been meted out to Castro’s Cuba. Venezuela is a far more...

... litical relationship with Venezuela’s presi­ to the hemispheric sidelines. dent, Hugo Chávez, the controversial pop­ In the five years since Zedillo’s speech ulist who has presided over the leading little appears outwardly to have changed. oil-producing country in the hemisphere Cuba...

.... Large, recently thriving countries like Brazil are struggling, hampered by domestic scandals. The economies of oil-dependent countries like Venezuela and Ecuador are stagnant, while other nations, such as Chile and Mexico, seem poised for growth. Amid this turbulence, countries are striving...

... person” and that Venezuela, and Brazil” headed, respec­ he was confident of Lula’s capacity “to im­ tively, by “a triumvirate of Castro, Chavez plement sound economic policies.” O ’N eill’s and Lula.”3 An editorial published in the backhanded compliments could hardly have Washington Times...

... that U.S. foreign policy will be focused, like it or not, on the new arc of crisis in Latin America— Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador (with Mexico waiting in the wings). It is Latin America and the Caribbean that most directly af­ fect Americans at home: immigration and drugs fuel the fears...

... but the American government,” and continued by saying they were dedicated “to creating our own version of 21st century socialism in Venezuela and would continue to fight against American imperialism.” Still, despite the close ties between Cuba and Venezuela, Cuba made the decision to negotiate with the United...

... Arabia is outdone in the cost of gallon of gas at the pump only by Libya and Venezuela, where gasoline goes for a heavily state-subsidized four cents a gallon. But in Norway, despite its offshore reserves, gas clocks in at $9.26 a gallon (down from a high of $10.08 last Fall), while in France, it’s...

... and Nicaragua continue to fight it out at The Hague in a disagreement over territorial waters. Bolivia and Chile have yet to resume full diplomatic relations following a breakdown over Bolivia’s aspiration to secure access to the Pacific Ocean. Guyana and Venezuela have been skirmishing at their border, while...

... the future. North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela are all places where analysts may reasonably conclude, despite the periodic tugging and pulling, that our most effective policy will also be one of containment without any major shift in the current dynamics. It is a fairly safe bet that the preponderance...

... and economic tyrant. Reacting to the near universal ostracism, even by Argentina’s neighboring and historically friendly countries, Kirchner’s strategy, at the very least, has been inventive. Trade delegations have visited Angola, Azerbaijan, and China, while Argentina was instrumental in adding Venezuela...

... for the middle class. Writer Christopher Reeve describes an exodus of talent from Venezuela as economic conditions deteriorate for its most educated citizens. Latin America, as many of our writers stress in the Big Question section, is not homogenous. Cuba has a unique dilemma: Unlike Venezuela, which...

...) Ramazani, R. K.; “The Iranian Coup” (XIX:3) Encarnación, Omar G.; “Lula's Big Win” (XIX:4) Rieff, David; “The Bureaucrat of Torture” (XIX: 1) Encarnación, Omar G.; "Venezuela's 'Civil Society Coup’” (XIX:2) Rizopoulos, Nicholas X.; “Facts of Life” (XIX:3) Feifer...

... was in the process of peeling off from Spain, a process that would be completed in 1824, and Bolivia in 1825. Venezuela had already shed Spanish rule in 1821, Colombia in 1820, Ecuador in 1822, Argentina in 1816, Paraguay in 1811, and almost all after bloody revolutionary battles. It took Chile a decade and a full...