Venezuela

by Sara Knuth | Spring/Summer 2023 How the Regis community is living Magis by helping asylum seekers from Venezuela As they prepared to leave Venezuela for the United States last September, Angelo Nunez-Pulgar’s parents told him he would have to be very brave. They told the 10-year-old that there would…

Recently I read an article by liberal intellectual and historian Johan Norberg about the situation in Venezuela. …

The wage disparity between men and women is a popular topic in discrimination studies. The gender pay (wage) gap can be simplified cautiously as the difference in earnings between men and women working. The literature on discrimination consistently verifies how women get paid less than men in nearly all occupations…

Google ‘oligarch’ and the results reflect the prevailing narrative that they are largely Russian/Soviet. But oily-garchies are everywhere, because the Paradox of Plenty predisposes resource-rich countries to subpar socio-economic outcomes, mainly because their extractive institutions promote corruption and kleptocracy (oligarchy’s jealous lover). …

Introduction The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s controversial tenure was marked by a series of radical policies and nationalization efforts, which significantly impacted the country’s economy and international relations. One such instance occurred in 2009 when Chávez threatened to expropriate the facilities of Toyota and other automakers if they failed to…

The conference in Colombia seemed to be a one-sided game: Biden and Borrell are demanding “free” elections from Maduro. — Unsuccessful “president” of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Juan Gerardo Guaido Marquez could not think of anything better than to illegally cross the border of Colombia through “the drug road” using “hitchhiking” to the capital Bogota and try to get into the mansion of the Colombian Foreign Ministry, Palacio San…

Here are the key facts of this story, as agreed upon by ¹Los Angeles Times, ²NBC, ³Spokesman and ⁴Al Jazeera. As the Title 42 COVID restrictions on immigration are set to expire next month, the US will establish regional processing centers for migrants in Colombia and Guatemala to reduce arrivals…

President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro (Bloomberg, Getty Image) There is a new phase in relations between the US and Venezuela. It has to do with the realization in Washington that the US cannot remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by force but can make a generous offer. The White House administration…

The Causes, the Context and the Consequences — Not a lot of people in the US know, or care to know, what is happening in Latin America. This is very tragic, because US foreign policy has had a tremendous(ly bad) impact on Latin America for generations, and it still does. Last year, five Latin American countries elected left-wing…