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.
Join Americas Quarterly and an expert panel for the virtual launch of its migration issue.
Council of the Americas will hold an expert panel on the health and migration impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Venezuela.
AS/COA hosted the U.S. State Department's James Story and others for a discussion about Venezuela in 2020.
Join AS/COA's Venezuela Working Group and the Young Professionals of the Americas on February 8 as we hear from the deputy from Vargas.
COA will hold a discussion on October 30 in Washington with the foreign minister of the Venezuela’s interim government of Juan Guaidó.
The problem of Nicolás Maduro is one that doesn’t fall neatly along party lines.
"What is happening in Venezuela risks rapidly spilling over into its neighboring countries," co-writes AS/COA Chairman Emeritus William R. Rhodes for Reuters Breakingviews.
"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.