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Chavismo offers no solutions for Venezuela’s violent crime
Though Venezuela’s crumbling economy was the top issue in 2013, the country’s violent crime rate is now topping the 2014 agenda after the horrific murder of Mónica Spear, the 29-year-old television...
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Will Venezuela or Argentina be the first to crumble into economic crisis?
I write tomorrow for The National Interest about the dual economic crises in Venezuela and Argentina. The similarities between the two economic crises are uncanny — inflation, capital controls, dollar...
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Politics turns violent in Venezuela
Though critics can dump a lot of problems on the doorstep of Hugo Chávez’s 14-year reign as president of Venezuela, the one thing that you can’t say about Chávez is that he used state violence (as...
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ESSAY: How Gabriel García Márquez introduced me to Latin America
Whenever I go to México City, I marvel at the way its indigenous history integrates into the fabric of the city. Nahuatl words, like ‘Chapultepec,’ meaning grasshopper, and ‘Xochimilco,’ a...
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Ramírez demotion headlines Venezuela’s cabinet reshuffle
Since 2004, Rafael Ramírez has served as the president of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA), the country’s state-owned oil company, and since 2002, Ramírez has served as Venezuela’s energy/oil...
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Photo essay: Cuba on the cusp… but for what kind of future?
HAVANA — On my first evening in Cuba , my bar ran out of mojitos, as fitting metaphor as any for nearly a week in the Cuban capital. Sure, it wasn’t the bar at Havana’s Hotel Nacional, but it was...
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No matter who wins, Sunday’s elections will not be chavismo’s last stand
Despite a late surge in the election campaign, socialist president Nicolás Maduro still faces a major defeat in this weekend’s elections for Venezuela’s National Assembly. In a set of free and fair...
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The comparison between Sanders and Venezuela is misguided and facile
‘Socialism’ may be at the heart of chavismo and the Sanders campaign, but they come from two very different political traditions. One of the more popular comparisons of critics of Vermont senator...
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Beyond Cuba: why Caribbean debt crisis could become American security crisis
Cuban president Raúl Castro met US president Barack Obama Monday morning in Havana. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald) It’s not just voters in Spain, Ireland and Greece who are weary of austerity economics. Voters...
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Overshadowed by scandal, Trump calls for López’s release in Venezuela
Before Thursday’s jaw-dropping 77-minute free-form press conference, US president Donald Trump made a rare foray into Latin American politics on Wednesday night, publicly calling for the release of...
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