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.
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.
