We track the crisis in Venezuela as interim President Juan Guaidó and his allies seek to replace Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
Nearing the midpoint of his presidency, Lenín Moreno is overseeing a soft landing after the excesses of his predecessor.
FGV’s Carlos Pereira explains the rules of negotiation and the president’s ability to pass legislation such as pension reform.
“[Military action] would be a step too far that would break up the international coalition against Maduro,” said AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth in The Wall Street Journal.
Nicolás Maduro’s violent repression of aid efforts has put the opposition and its international partners in a delicate position.
A new regional body proposed by Colombia and Chile faces difficult prospects.
"The key is to keep the Maduro regime on the defensive," writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in The National Interest.
“In Venezuela, you can decapitate the regime, but there will still be [leftists] and armed goon squads who may be spoiling to fight,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to The Washington Post.
“I don’t know that anyone can give a timeline of when the dam might break, and it’s quite possible that it won’t,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Associated Press about Venezuela.
"This is not a new political and economic order," said AS/COA's Alana Tummino to Bloomberg about the referendum in Cuba.