Venezuela Working Group
Venezuela Working Group
The Venezuela Working Group (VWG) leverages AS/COA’s corporate constituency to provide a unique forum for a constructive, hands-on conversation on Venezuela. The VWG navigates Venezuela’s changing economic and political landscape by convening key national and international stakeholders from the public, private, and social sectors to better understand the country’s present challenges and future political and economic scenarios. Our programs include high-level private and public meetings and discussions.
The VWG is open to and currently includes AS/COA corporate, Chairman’s International Advisory Council, Board of Directors, and President’s Circle members.
Venezuelan Opposition Candidate Series
The founder of the Vente Venezuela movement spoke virtually to members gathered in New York.
The candidate of the Voluntad Popular movement spoke to members gathered in Miami.
AS/COA hosted a private conversation that included lawyers for Venezuela’s Creditors Committee and the Venezuelan government.
Watch an expert panel discussion on the role of women in the fight for a democratic resolution in Venezuela.
AS/COA held a one-on-one conversation with Cristina Burelli, an internationally known advocate for the Venezuelan Amazon.
The event also featured remarks by Colombian Vice Foreign Minister Adriana Mejía and U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela James Story.
Council of the Americas held a public meeting with David Smolansky, the special envoy of the OAS secretary general for Venezuela’s migration and refugee crisis.
"We must gird ourselves for the long haul...This most global crisis needs global solutions," co-writes AS/COA Chairman Emeritus William R. Rhodes for Reuters Breakingviews.
"The [Maduro] administration is consolidating control, and prospects for a peaceful transition appear increasingly bleak," writes AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in The Banker.
"Governments throughout the Americas and Europe must begin a coordinated effort to identify and seize assets of corrupt regime officials," writes COA Board Member and Scotiabank President and CEO Brian J. Porter in the National Post.
Here are three ways the Maduro government has moved to undercut the opposition-controlled legislature.
The chaos is part of Nicolás Maduro’s strategy to keep the opposition on its heels and to consolidate power, says the AS/COA vice president in this Q&A.