"It's very clear [President Maduro] is putting money behind his priorities, but those don't necessarily include the population of the country" says AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.

The U.S. congressman from El Paso who is trying to sell Washington on what the border is really like.

Venezuelans marked April 19, their president’s fourth anniversary in office, with mass protests. Here are issues to keep in mind for the rest of his six-year term.

Peaceful protests almost always work better than violent ones - even against repressive governments.

“Anger over corruption is really the one thing that unites Latin Americans right now,” says AS/COA's Brian Winter.

The United States has worked under a laissez-faire approach to encourage others to fill a void in regional leadership toward Venezuela, points out AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.

The “end of the world” finally arrived, and it wasn’t pretty.