Victor Garcia | Contributing Writer On March 31 FIU’s Cuban Research Institute presented a discussion comparing the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions and exile diaspora. The panel was split evenly with University of Michigan professor Silvia Pedraza and CRI Director Jorge Duany representing the Cuban perspective while FIU Professors Brian Fonseca and Ofelia Riquezes Curiel handled […]
Gustavo Contreras/Staff Writer In 2016, Trump promised Venezuelan-Americans a call to action and a force of change in our native country. It is now 2020, and with his first term about to expire, Venezuelans have not gotten what we were promised. I was born and raised in Venezuela before immigrating to “Westonzuela” at the age […]
By: Sarai Leon / Contributing Writer On March 26, the United States Justice Department announced drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges on the disputed President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and other high ranking members of the Venezuelan government and military. Although this is the first formal presentation of these crimes, this isn’t the first time that […]
By Ursula Muñoz Schaefer/Assistant Opinion Director On Wednesday April 1, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would deploy its Navy near Venezuela to stop the country’s drug trade and increase pressure against Venezuelan autocrat Nicolás Maduro. The news came a week after the U.S. Justice Department indicted Maduro and other Venezuelan government officials […]
Humberto Mendez Prince/Staff Writer Once more, international attention has shifted towards Venezuela’s conflict. On Tuesday, Feb. 3, interim president Juan Guaidó visited Miami on the last stop of a political tour that was meant to announce his party’s objectives for this year. As he stood in the Miami Airport Convention Center preparing to give the […]
By: Victor Jorges/News Director Diplomatic behavior and democratic elections are the only way out of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro regime according to experts at the State of the World event at FIU on Jan. 10. Elliot Abrams, Special Representative for Venezuela from the U.S. Department of State, believes that fair democratic elections are the only way […]
Humberto Mendez Prince/Contributing Writer Once again, Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is using violence, anarchy and chaos to encourage socialist and populist ideals in South America — and all of the politicians in his favor are sugarcoating these ideals by saying they’re fighting “for the people.” In the past few weeks, South America has been experiencing […]
Cristina Gonzalez/Staff Writer After a controversial Venezuelan election, marked by electoral rigging and corruption, President Nicolas Maduro has been inaugurated for another term. The opposition boycotted the election, leaving Maduro to be reelected. This outcome does not surprise Eduardo Gamarra, professor of political science at FIU. “The opposition had a decision to make, either they […]
Eduardo Alvarez/ Contributing Writer Explosions rocked an event in which Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, the presumed target, escaped unscathed on Saturday, Aug. 4. Regardless of who tried to kill him, the action indicates just how desperate the country’s situation is. The U.S. recently expressed its support in creating an independent commission aimed at investigating what […]
