In this podcast, Mark Feierstein, NSC senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs in the Obama White House, lays out a multi-pronged strategy for pressuring the Maduro regime ahead of 2018 elections.

In an election that could decide the next presidency, voters will judge an unpopular president’s legacy.

Alejandro Guillier has tried to reassure the private sector ahead of a run-off election on Dec. 17 – with mixed results.

"[Venezuela's President Maduro] seems to be clearing the decks for a presidential run in 2018, trying to reduce the stature and perhaps the freedom of anyone who might be a countervailing center of power," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth.

As Bolivia’s Evo Morales eyes a fourth consecutive term, we look at other places in the Americas where the topic of reelection has made waves in recent years.

The PRI's presidential candidate could struggle to win popular support in time for the election, but it would be a big mistake to count him out, writes AS/COA's Carin Zissis in this Q&A.

"The constant flow of scandals seems to be souring Brazilians on their political system altogether. But Moro prefers taking the long view," writes AS/COA's Brian Winter in Foreign Policy's globalREthinkers edition.