Don’t underestimate the Bearded One, writes AQ’s editor-in-chief.
The lesson from Venezuela about despotic governments in general is that “the people are ultimately the ones who are going to pay the price, and the people that are going to gain are those who are in power,” says AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.
The outcome of a June 4 gubernatorial election in Mexico’s most populous state could be an indicator of what’s to come in the 2018 presidential race.
Even as Bolivia’s president flirts with authoritarianism, the opposition is failing to offer a real alternative.
The mother of all battles is government expenditure reform, say economists of the Fundación of Investigaciones Económicas Latinoamericanas.
"The patience of long-suffering Venezuelans appears to be running out," writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in HuffPost.
Meet the volunteer medical brigade caring for those wounded in increasingly violent anti-government protests.