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.
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Council of the Americas will hold a public conversation with Secretary Alex Azar about how the United States can support the health security of the Venezuelan people.
Join the Venezuela Working Group and YPA for a cafecito with Armando Armas, a deputy in Venezuela’s National Assembly.
Council of the Americas will hold a private meeting with Alejandro Grisanti, the national plan coordinator for petroleum and the economy for Venezuela’s interim government.
Join YPA in Washington, DC for a discussion with prominent student leader Rafaela Requesens, who is leading several of the youth protests against Nicolás Maduro’s regime.
Council of the Americas will hold a private meeting to discuss the U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s energy trade with Tarek Fahmy, acting director, office of sanctions policy and implementation, U.S. Department of State.
Few options exist to restore a disrupted democracy and, writes AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth in The National Interest, in a worst-case scenario, the country could “cease to function as a political entity fully governed from Caracas.”
Nicolás Maduro’s government is running out of cash and fuel—and fast.
“We have not really exhausted the diplomatic channels,” says Guillermo Zubillaga, head of the AS/COA Venezuela Working Group.
Juan Guaidó’s youth gives him less baggage than many of his colleagues. Will that help him take on Maduro?
Venezuela’s diplomatic relations are straining to a breaking point as Nicolás Maduro prepares to begin a new term on January 10, 2019.
