Dec 18, 2015 | Amazonas, Caribbean, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, South America, Venezuela
by Dr Amy Penfield, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2015-16 On the morning of Monday 7th December, I was greeted with news reports of the Venezuelan ruling socialist party’s (PSUV) landslide defeat in the previous day’s parliamentary elections, accompanied by images of...
Mar 30, 2015 | Caribbean, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, South America, Venezuela
by Dr Asa Cusack, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2014-15 Spain’s traditional parties aim to halt the remarkable rise of Podemos by painting links to Venezuela as foreign intervention. Like many Podemos policies this is an import from Latin America. The good news is...
Feb 15, 2015 | Caribbean, Cuba, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, South America, Venezuela
by Dr Asa Cusack, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2014-15 As the Institute of Latin American Studies prepares to host the conference Ten Years of ALBA: Progress, Problems, and Prospects on 26 February 2015, stipendiary fellow Dr Asa Cusack considers how economic and political...
Jul 9, 2014 | Caribbean, Latin America, Latin America & Caribbean, Venezuela
by Dr Matt Wilde, ILAS Stipendiary Fellow 2013-14 The last few months have been testing times for Venezuelans. In February a series of anti-government protests broke out across the country, igniting social tensions that had been simmering since the death of Hugo...
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