Russia has been a powerful ally in Venezuela's complex crisis, having developed political, economic and cultural relations with the Venezuelan state by employing various foreign policy instruments such as mutual support in multilateral fora, foreign aid, loans, commodity trading, military support and ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The future of Venezuela is on the line. Voters will decide Sunday whether to reelect President Nicolas Maduro, whose 11 years in office have been beset by crisis, or allow the opposition a chance to deliver on a promise to undo...
Most observers believe Nicolás Maduro lost his reelection bid in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential race. But Maduro is playing hardball.
Former president of Venezuela Hugo Chavez put it well: "China is large but it's not an empire. China doesn't trample on anyone, it hasn't invaded anyone, it doesn't go around dropping bombs on anyone." Yes, China has become a major power. It is the world's second-largest economy;...
Oil stocks have also been hit by the apparently rising probability of an extended trade war between the U.S. and China. Meanwhile, fears of a global economic downturn have swept aside concerns of tighter supplies, as U.S. sanctions have cut Iranian exports and weighed heavily on Venezuela’...
[22] proposed a model, based on the number of times the name of a candidate is mentioned in tweets prior to elections, to predict the winner of three presidential elections held in Latin America (Venezuela, Paraguay, Ecuador) from February to April, 2013. Volumetric analyses have been also ...
After Decades Of Political Corruption, The Past Week+ Shows Why America Is Headed For A Venezuela Style Collapse And Societal Catastrophe - The Bank Meltdown Just Got Worse By MN Gordon of the Economic Prism for All News Pipeline“The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s th...
In the end, Venezuela's supreme court became exactly what the Chavez and Maduro regimes wanted — a political weapon for the dictator. Democrats are terrified that their judicial supremacy is over, and they’re determined to maintain their control of the Supreme Court by any means necessary …...
Unhappiness is both a political state and a mental health crisis, although we rarely see them as interrelated. Anxietyaffects 1 in 5 adults. More than20 percent of teenshave seriously considered suicide. Experts on mental health point to social media as one reason for social disconnectedness. ...
Democracy is in crisis as the ‘big lie’ takes root. NPR (3 January 2022). McCarty, N. Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford Univ. Press, 2019). Iyengar, S., Lelkes, Y., Levendusky, M., Malhotra, N. & Westwood, S. J. The origins and consequences of affective ...