El líder interino Nicolás Maduro reforzará su legitimidad política como defensor del legado chavista y continuará manteniendo a Estados Unidos a distancia, escribe Eric Farnsworth para El Tiempo de Colombia.
Tras la muerte de Chávez, Nicolás Maduro tendrá que aprovechar el momento y enfocarse en el futuro económico de Venezuela si abriga esperanzas de ganar una eventual elección, escribe Jason Marczak para El Diario la Prensa.
In World Politics Review, AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth writes that Latin American energy demand may clash with environmental interests as the region's middle class continues to grow.
AS/COA's Christopher Sabatini writes for CNN-GPS that "[President Hugo] Chávez’s legacy in Venezuela and in the region will be one of institutional debasement and polarization."
“Chávez’s experiment is aging as Venezuela continues to chart an unsustainable populist path,” writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth for O Estadão.
“O experimento de Chávez está envelhecendo já que o caminho populista está se tornando insustentável”, escreve Eric Farnsworth para O Estadão.
"Mexico’s prospects look better now than they have in decades," writes Americas Society Board Member Antonio Garza.