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 ...

There has to be considered that the NGO Venezuelan Criminal Forum (Foro Penal Venezolano) reports that there are 268 political prisoners ... MERCOSUR demanded to Venezuela to release its ...

It has been 10 years since Hugo Chávez was elected president of Venezuela and set out to overhaul the country’s largely discredited political system. His first major achievement, the enactment ...

The longstanding Guyana-Venezuela land boundary dispute occupies a distinct ... The issue continued to captivate public and political attention, particularly in the 1960s as Guyana approached ...

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 ...

The two neighboring states have feuded over land and maritime borders for decades as Venezuela claims that an 1890s boundaries commission cheated it out of the oil rich Essequibo region.