Migrants seeking asylum at El Paso, Texas, on the US-Mexico border.
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The overwhelming focus of Venezuelan migrants in the US is on earning enough money to build a life back home.
Latin American countries are bracing themselves for a wave of Venezuelan migrants.
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A new wave of migration from Venezuela is probably on its way – here’s how governments across Latin America should respond.
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The fallout from Venezuela’s election will throw the country deeper into crisis.
Demonstrators protest against Nicolás Maduro’s government in Caracas on July 29, 2024.
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President Nicolás Maduro claimed victory, but regional leaders and outside observers have cried foul.
Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro delivers a speech after results from the country’s presidential election were announced by the electoral council on July 29.
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Maduro declared winner in Venezuelan election, and world leaders have made clear their suspicion.
Opposition leader María Corina Machado has built a social movement that is on the brink of toppling Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime.
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Venezuelans head to the polls on Sunday to vote in an election that has so far not been a fair contest.
Venezuelans gather in the Colombian capital, Bogotá, on April 6, 2024 to demand a free and fair process in Venezuela’s presidential election on July 28, 2024.
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Given the high number of Venezuelans living abroad, it is crucial those in the diaspora are able to take part in the country’s electoral process.
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Nicolás Maduro cracks down on civil liberties as Venezuela prepares for its presidential election.
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A longstanding territorial dispute could flare into open confrontation in South America.
Police arrest a protester at a Moscow rally in support of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who fell ill while in prison and is now hospitalized.
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There’s not much the world can do to stop authoritarian rulers from persecuting their political opponents, as shown by the standoff over Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is ill and imprisoned.
Russian police officers beat people protesting the jailing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Jan. 23, 2021 in Moscow.
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And there’s not too much the rest of the world can do to stop them.
Venzuelan President Nicolás Maduro holds up the passports of two Americans detained in Venezuela in early May.
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US denies backing failed raid to remove Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro – but it has a long history of sponsoring private armies elsewhere.
He may be praying, but so far the Pope has declined to intervene in Venezuela’s crisis to aid a unified coronavirus response.
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If anyone can convince the Maduro government and the Venezuelan opposition to come together to fight COVID-19, it’s the Pope. But the Church’s power to negotiate an emergency deal is limited.
In this March 2018 photo, Venezuelan children wait for a meal at a migrant shelter set up in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil.
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If Brazil can find an efficient, pragmatic way to welcome, protect and integrate hundreds of thousands of forced migrants arriving at its border, so can more affluent states.
Anti-government protesters in Chile defend themselves against a police water cannon, Santiago, Nov. 15, 2019.
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Many of Latin America’s leftist ‘revolutions’ are now in crisis. But the left is resurging in some countries.
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Progressives are leading in the presidential elections of Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia, bucking the region’s recent rightward trend. But there are lessons in the failures of leftists past.
Sanctions are mounting against the government of Nicolás Maduro.
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When the Rio Treaty was signed in 1947, an opportunity was missed to promote democracy in Latin America.
Venezuela has been in economic and political crisis for years.
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For one, you can’t break an economy that’s already broken.
A line of cars spills on to the street as drivers wait to fill their tanks at a fuel station in Cabimas, Venezuela, in May 2019. U.S. sanctions on oil-rich Venezuela appear to be taking hold, resulting in mile-long lines for fuel and other hardships.
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The devastating costs of economic sanctions on Venezuela are being ignored or disregarded. So too is the lack of a legal basis for international intervention.
Bullet shells collected during a pro-government protest in Venezuela.
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At the beginning of the 1980s, homicides were relatively rare in Venezuela. Now, it’s one of the most dangerous countries in Latin America.