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.
Live Broadcast
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.
In a speech to the Pan-American Association of Philadelphia, AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth reflects on the state of democracy in Latin America.
“You can’t force people to vote when they themselves are convinced that the system is completely rigged,” says the AS/COA Venezuela Working Group head of the November 21 vote.
Observers must maintain pressure and unity until meaningful steps are taken by the Maduro regime, write Eric Farnsworth and Guillermo Zubillaga for Univision.
After 20 years, Hugo Chávez and now Nicolás Maduro's project is exposed as less an ideology than a cold-blooded grab for lasting power and self-enrichment, writes AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth.
The Biden administration must refine Washington’s strategy toward the 20-year-old dictatorship.
