...Alejandro Velasco Once again, Nicolás Maduro claimed a dubious victory in a presidential election and violently suppressed protests—but in 2024, many poor and working-class voters, long loyal to his regime, turned against him. Maduro may have counted on the opposition imploding, as it has...

...Benedicte Bull; Antulio Rosales After a deterioration of democratic conditions in Venezuela, in 2017 the United States intensified its sanctions imposed on the regime of Nicolás Maduro. The sanctions failed to topple the regime, but they accelerated the transformation of the Venezuelan economy...