Drink More Ovaltine
The jokes we told in a Venezuelan prison.
Joseph G. St. Clair
· 11 min read
Venezuela
A collection of 9 posts
Foreign Power, Local Politics
Where local collaboration is absent, foreign intervention imposes enormous costs or simply stalls. Where it exists, intervention can succeed with surprising velocity.
Pablo Policzer
· 10 min read
Iran’s Forward-Operating Base in the West
With the survival of Nicolas Maduro’s regime now uncertain, Iran and Hezbollah have much to lose in Caracas.
Emanuele Ottolenghi
· 7 min read
Reclaiming Venezuela
The tactical brilliance of the US operation in Caracas sends a message to the world: American power is back.
Juan P. Villasmil
· 10 min read
Is De-Chávezification Underway in Venezuela at Last?
Venezuelans have had enough of Chavismo, and in Maria Corina Machado, they finally have an ideological alternative.
Juan P. Villasmil
· 7 min read
Is Venezuela About to Invade Guyana?
Analysts are skeptical and Guyana is nervous. But history teaches us to pay attention when an unpopular despot starts to speak the language of irredentism.
Juan P. Villasmil
· 8 min read
How Venezuelan Democracy Lost the Battle Against Castro
An interview with Venezuelan journalist Orlando Avendaño.
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 6 min read
Resolving the Venezuela Crisis — Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention?
Venezuelans have been voting with their feet to escape the ruin the regime has inflicted on them.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 8 min read
The Man Who Predicted the Venezuelan Catastrophe in 1893
History has revealed Richter’s political and economic insights about the inevitable fate of socialist experiments to be a warning of eerie prescience.
Hugo Newman
· 18 min read