Venezuela Working Group
Venezuela Working Group
The Venezuela Working Group (VWG) leverages AS/COA’s corporate constituency to provide a unique forum for a constructive, hands-on conversation on Venezuela. The VWG navigates Venezuela’s changing economic and political landscape by convening key national and international stakeholders from the public, private, and social sectors to better understand the country’s present challenges and future political and economic scenarios. Our programs include high-level private and public meetings and discussions.
The VWG has hosted key figures such as Gustavo Baquero, Juan Guaidó, Ricardo Hausmann, José Ignacio Hernández, and Carlos Vecchio, among others.
The VWG is open to and currently includes AS/COA corporate, Chairman’s International Advisory Council, Board of Directors, and President’s Circle members.
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OAS Special Envoy David Smolansky discussed the desperate conditions Venezuelan refugees are facing as they try to return to their country.
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"We are now dealing with a consolidated dictatorship," said the AS/COA vice president.
“You have a country that’s embarked on the full path of dictatorship,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Associated Press.
Council of the Americas held a public meeting with David Smolansky, the special envoy of the OAS secretary general for Venezuela’s migration and refugee crisis.
Council of the Americas held an off-the-record discussion with Norman T. Roule on Iranian interests in Venezuela and, more broadly, Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Join Americas Quarterly and an expert panel for the virtual launch of its migration issue.
Council of the Americas will hold an expert panel on the health and migration impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Venezuela.
AS/COA hosted the U.S. State Department's James Story and others for a discussion about Venezuela in 2020.
The problem of Nicolás Maduro is one that doesn’t fall neatly along party lines.
"What is happening in Venezuela risks rapidly spilling over into its neighboring countries," co-writes AS/COA Chairman Emeritus William R. Rhodes for Reuters Breakingviews.
"We must gird ourselves for the long haul...This most global crisis needs global solutions," co-writes AS/COA Chairman Emeritus William R. Rhodes for Reuters Breakingviews.
"The [Maduro] administration is consolidating control, and prospects for a peaceful transition appear increasingly bleak," writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in The Banker.
"Governments throughout the Americas and Europe must begin a coordinated effort to identify and seize assets of corrupt regime officials," writes COA Board Member and Scotiabank President and CEO Brian J. Porter in the National Post.
