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 leading experts to discuss Venezuela and PDVSA’s financial standing in 2017.
Americas Society/Council of the Americas will hold a discussion with José Miguel Vivanco, executive director for the Americas region at Human Rights Watch.
AS/COA will host a panel discussion on Venezuela and PDVSA’s financial standing.
Live Broadcast
AS/COA, in collaboration with Torino Capital, will host Henri Falcón, governor of the state of Lara, Venezuela.
AS/COA will host a conversation with leading economic and political experts from Venezuela.
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.
