Once in office, Chávez redirected Venezuela’s resources toward social programs, providing food, housing, free education, and healthcare for millions. Nigerian trade unionists, civil society ...

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 ...

Juan Guaidó, the President of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself "interim president" during anti-government ...

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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President Donald Trump held a White House meeting with oil executives, Cabinet officials and advocates on Wednesday, at which ...

A tough criminal and labor lawyer who helped win Hugo Chavez's release from prison after a failed coup two decades ago, Venezuela's former attorney general Cilia Flores has since never been far ...

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has threatened withdrawal from ... which he accuses of anti government campaign and having supported the coup that ousted him for two days, five years ago.

He came to power in a 1799 coup on the pretext that the French republic ... In other contexts—Venezuela after the election of Hugo Chávez, for example—the planning for the emergency exhibits ...