Author: Luis Fleischman

Venezuela’s Instability Merits Reevaluation of US Strategy

The United States must reevaluate its policy towards Venezuela.

A unified international coalition of the Organization for American States (OAS) and a group of Latin American countries backing sanctions and the isolation of Venezuela, combined with social protests and a finally unified opposition under the leadership of Juan Guaido, has generated anxiety and defection within the Venezuelan state apparatus.

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The crisis in Chile: What is happening?

The violent protests in Chile surprised even the wisest observers of South American events. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa notes Chile’s hugely successful economy, and three decades of harmonious co-existence between right and left, with a strong political center, has supported private enterprise and international trade.

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