Global Americans Executive Director Christopher Sabatini talks about how the Inter-American system has failed to keep Human Rights violations in check... And what it would take for it to succeed.
Energy Security, Energy Equity, Environmental Sustainability: Pick two. Unless you’re Venezuela. If you’re Venezuela, pick zero.
All of our eggs - not just all the opposition's eggs, but all of the nation's eggs - are now in the Recall Referendum basket. What if it fails? Do we fully realize that this is democracy's last shot?
When you hear "political prisoner" you automatically think "Leopoldo López". But what about the nearly 100 regular people, like Vasco Da Costa, who ended up in Venezuela's deathtrap jails just for disagreeing with the government?
The Signatures to request the launch of a recall procedure are in CNE's hands. It's a funny sort of democracy where you have to stalk around a warehouse in the dead of night to exercise a basic constitutional right, wouldn't you say?
We found the secret resolution CNE used to argue we need 1% of the voters in each state to launch a recall. It just doesn't say that. And that's not the only regulatory detail they made up.
Amid an outright economic catastrophe, Nicolás Maduro has managed to retain popularity ratings many other South American presidents would kill for.
Chavista courts are playing a dangerous game. By declaring the National Assembly ineffective, they want to taint the political process as a whole. They are falling into the abyss, and they are intent of bringing the opposition down with them.
Nobody - not in the government, not in the opposition - expected the avalanche of people we've seen yesterday and today signing to request Maduro's recall.
As air-conditioners shut down, we get a firsthand account of Maracaibo: a city on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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