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.
AS/COA will host a panel of leading experts on September 26 to discuss Venezuela and PDVSA’s debt and the increasing likelihood of default.
On August 10, hear from leading democracy activists Carlos Vecchio of Voluntad Popular and Julio Henriquez of Foro Penal discuss the implications of the constituent assembly.
Join the Venezuela Working Group and YPA for a cafecito with Ana Cristina Vargas, founder of Trazando Espacios Públicos.
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AS/COA will host a conference on July 13 in Miami with Venezuelan civil society leaders on the ongoing crisis and the humanitarian situation.
Council of the Americas will hold a public panel discussion in the wake of the OAS meetings to discuss the path ahead for the people of Venezuela and the international community.
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.
