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The Heat: Venezuela’s Crisis

By Anand Naidoo

"Venezuela is a petroleum exporting country, true. But the government has also destroyed every other avenue of economic gain in the country" explained AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth. 

Last month Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro shocked many in his country by calling for a constitutional assembly to draft a new constitution.

The embattled President has seen his political capital sapped by triple-digit inflation, plunging oil prices and chronic shortages of food and consumer goods.

Public anger has fueled almost daily protests since early April, with more than 70 people killed, and no end in sight.

Tonight’s panel takes a look at how the Latin American country could rebound from the current crisis:

  • Jennifer McCoy, founding director of Georgia State University’s Global Studies Institute and the former director of the Americas program at the Carter Center
  • Gloria La Riva, coordinator for the Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee
  • Luis Angosto-Ferrandez, author of “Venezuela Reframed”
  • Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas

Watch the video here.

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