Venezuela was home to one of the most established democracies in Latin America. Today, however, it stands as one of the ...

LAURA GAMBOA is Assistant Professor of Democracy and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies Against the Erosion of Democracy. The ...

A new paper from political scientist Laura Gamboa at the University of Notre Dame chronicles the country’s 25-year evolution, during which Hugo Chávez ... a 2002 coup and the 2003 oil strike ...

Donald Trump is currently transforming the U.S. into an authoritarian state, argues Harvard Professor Steven Levitsky, author of "How Democracies Die." And he is using an unexpected twist in the ...

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This was precisely what triggered the coup against Zelaya who was ousted ... believe the long hand and wallet of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez are behind the Honduras crisis and are conditioning ...

NINETEEN seventy-one arrived, not as a year, but as a violation, a savage tear in the thin skin of what we dared call life. I ...

It was also the year that Venezuela re-elected Hugo Chávez, who won the elections for the first time in 1998, after the failed 1992 coup. His re-election came after winning the presidential referendum ...

Aaliyah Chavez is headed to Norman. The Monterey star, rated as the No. 1 recruit in women's basketball for the 2025 class, chose Oklahoma as her college destination at a ceremony Tuesday at the ...