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Peter Wilson: Chávez Ad Infinitum?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had much to crow about following Sunday's decision by voters to back his proposal to abolish term limits, enabling him to run for re-election in 2012. Chávez, who first...
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Peter Wilson: Those in Glass Houses...
Hopes that an Obama presidency could thaw ties between the United States and Venezuela are quickly receding after President Hugo Chávez called the U.S. president an "ignoramus" this past weekend....
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Peter Wilson: Chávez's Crackdown Makes U.S.-Venezuelan Thaw More Difficult
No doubt about it, U.S. President Barack Obama and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, stole the spotlight at this weekend's Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.Pictures of the two men...
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Peter Wilson: A Chávez/Obama Showdown?
U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Patrick Duffy resumed his post in Caracas last month after being expelled by President Hugo Chávez in 2008. But he better not unpack his bags just yet. Rising tensions...
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The Modern Dictator vs. Pragmatic Opposition
Lede: William J. Dobson spoke at a World Policy Institute Political Salon about his new book The Dictator’s Learning Curve, which explores the experience of being a dictator and what it means to...
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Chávez's Legacy of Violent Rhetoric
Lede: Vice President Nicolas Maduro says President Hugo Chavez is dead. In our Spring 2012 issue, Marco Aponte-Moreno and Lance Lattig described how Chavez used his rhetoric to maintain power—and how...
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How the Latin American Press is Losing its Voice
Lede: Venezuela's last television station critical of Hugo Chávez, Globovisión, has been bought by the Bolivarians. With the hemisphere's main tool for promoting press freedom heading toward the...
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Hugo Chávez: 1954-Forever
Lede: Hugo Chávez supporters in New York came out to honor the late Venezuelan president just over a week after his death. World Policy Journal editorial assistant Jordan Katz documents Chávez's...
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