Venezuela ranks number nine in the world in renewable freshwater resources. However, the state, which is responsible for supplying these resources, guarantees neither their quality nor their availability.Read the full article
Being a woman in the Caribbean nation comes at a very high cost that has only increased since 2015 due to Venezuela’s complex humanitarian emergency and the Covid-19 crisis.Read the full article
Venezuela, an oil-producing power for many decades, is faced with the challenge of transitioning to green energy like the rest of the region. Its main obstacles are the lack of investment in technology and the absence of a national policy on the [...]Read the full article
As the ageing of the world’s population accelerates, what of the older people on the move within its fastest ageing region, Latin America?Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Sanctions have long had a bad reputation for both failing to achieve results and for causing much more suffering to the vulnerable civilian populations they ostensibly aim to protect than to the political and economic leaders they [...]Read the full article
Carlos Malamud:All the components of a global crisis are present in Venezuela: the international community is involved or feels it has to take sides, and some observers are speaking of a return to the Cold War. To what extent is the current situation driven by a struggle for control over Venezuela’s [...]Read the full article
César Muñoz Acebes:The large influx of immigrants has a clear impact on a small town like Pacaraima, but Brazilians should direct their outrage at the Maduro government – not its victims.Read the full article
In the midst of an unprecedented economic crisis, Venezuela is gripped by gold fever. Venezuelans are flocking by the hundreds to the Orinoco Mining Arc and the environment is paying the price in the form of deforestation and mercury-polluted [...]Read the full article
“When you speak to donors about supporting access to healthcare, for example, it needs to be framed in terms of general access that benefits migrants and local communities alike,” to help minimise any xenophobic sentiment and to promote development and [...]Read the full article
From north to south, the Americas are in the grip of an intense election year, set against the background of Lula’s imprisonment in Brazil, the participation of the FARC in Colombia, rising violence in Mexico and calls to reject the results in Cuba and Venezuela. Leading the polls are the most [...]Read the full article
“There are so many Venezuelans here that are engineers or architects, and they’re selling donuts or empanadas. I don’t want to be doing this. I want to work in a company like I was at home.”Read the full article
Tamara Adrián:“The fact is that the government of Nicolás Maduro has decided, again, to change the rules of the game. It is using electoral game theory to carry out constitutional fraud.”Read the full article
Gustavo Dudamel:’’Nothing justifies bloodshed. We must stop ignoring the just cry of the people suffocated by an intolerable crisis.’’Read the full article
To understand Venezuela you need to look beyond the Chavismo-opposition dichotomy and see the key elements that affect day to day life in the countryRead the full article
Latin America is the region with highest number of transgender homicide victims. It is, however, Latin America that is, according to the Venezuelan deputy Tamara Adrián, “stepping up to the mark in terms of civil rights for LGBT [...]Read the full article