The negotiations between the Maduro government and the Unitary Platform of the opposition have reached just over a month amid bickering between the sides, which accuse each other of trying to implode the process. While the National Assembly under Chavista […]
On September 13, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, presented an update of her office’s report on the Venezuela situation during the 48th regular session of the Human Rights Council. Among other things, Ms. Bachelet highlighted […]
Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan assured that “it is not correct to impose sanctions just because it is easier for the international community. We must take into account the suffering they cause to people” Alena Douhan, The United Nations Special Rapporteur […]
On June 18, Bloomberg aired an interview with Maduro, whose plan for an economic opening up seems to continue. Every day, the National Assembly increases the number of laws to reform or approve. The country moves toward a Maduro-style political […]
U.S. Should Recognize Gains, Incentivize Further Progress Today, after weeks of concerted mobilizing by civil society and persistent negotiations between opposition representatives and the Maduro government, the new members of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) were announced. While in itself […]
Two years after Juan Guaidó claimed a mandate as interim president of Venezuela in January 2019, the country’s crisis continues and Nicolás Maduro appears more firmly in power than at any point in recent years. As Maduro has continued to […]
It will be necessary to pay redoubled attention to the new realities and expectations, and to facilitate ways to make small or great advances possible, instead of filling the road with mines The discussion on the relevance of international sanctions […]
In the early morning of January 20, 2020, when the then Vice President of the de facto government, Mrs. Delcy Rodríguez, arrived at Madrid Barajas airport and met with a Spanish cabinet minister, one of the most publicized political and […]
The de facto government seems committed to getting the maximum political gain from the visit to Venezuela of the UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures, Mrs. Alena Douhan. It has invested a lot of effort […]
Even though the Government of Nicolás Maduro committed to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, during her visit in June 2019, to invite at least ten thematic mechanisms of the UN Human Rights Council, composed of […]
