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August 25, 2011
Defense and Security
Reads of the Week: Violence in Venezuela and New Approaches to the Drug War
A woman walks on a street drawn with chalk silhouettes during a protest against violent crimes in Caracas (Courtesy Reuters). A recent International Crisis Group report on the rise of violence in Ve…
February 17, 2009
Venezuela
Referendum in Venezuela Hardens Chavez’s ’Authoritarian Regime’
Allan Brewer-Carias, a former Venezuelan legislator and opponent of President Hugo Chavez, says the referendum that overturned term limits on Chavez will strengthen the country’s authoritarian strain…
July 22, 2016
Americas
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Mexico’s Anticorruption Reforms, South Africa’s Anticorruption Setbacks, Venezuela’s Slow-Motion Coup
Mexico’s New Anticorruption Tools President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law long-awaited rules to step up Mexico’s fight against corruption. He had to veto an earlier version that would have forc…
January 31, 2007
Politics and Government
Why Venezuela and Bolivia aren't leading a region-wide trend
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and Bolivia’s President Evo Morales are closely linked, and many fear they represent a new trend away from democracy, open markets, and the United States in Latin …
January 17, 2013
Fossil Fuels
Chavez’s Troubled Legacy for Venezuela’s Oil Industry
The failure of ailing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to return from Cuba, where he is recovering from another round of surgery, to Caracas for his inauguration underscores the uncertainty of the So…
