Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is escalating his rhetoric as the country's presidential ... "If you don't want Venezuela to fall into a bloodbath, into a fratricidal civil war because ...

The risks outlined in a 2012 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Contingency Planning Memorandum, "Political Unrest in Venezuela," remain valid, as the possibility of significant political ...

Venezuela still enjoys a vibrant public ... essential rights requires more than constitutional guarantees and political rhetoric. It requires institutions that are capable of countering and ...

Venezuela enacted a regressive law tightening state control over non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Popularly referred to ...

Contingency Planning Memoranda identify plausible scenarios that could have serious consequences for U.S. interests and propose measures to both prevent and mitigate them. In the coming months ...

Venezuela announced it was sending an additional 15.000 forces to border areas with Colombia and Brazil. “Tension, let us say is part of the continental rhetoric”, said Jobim. However he did ...