Monthly Archives: February 2019

Will Trump Sabotage His Venezuela Strategy? The U.S. president’s saber-rattling rhetoric threatens a unified international response to the crisis in the South American country.

Will Trump Sabotage His Venezuela Strategy? The U.S. president’s saber-rattling rhetoric threatens a unified international response to the crisis in the South American country.
  • February 27, 2019
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LIMA, Peru — In the wake of last weekend's bloodshed during the abortive attempt to deliver humanitarian aid across hunger-ravaged Venezuela's borders, a United States-led military intervention appears increasingly possible. On Sunday, Juan Guaidó, the man recognized as Venezuela's interim president by Washington and most European and Latin American democracies, appeared to embrace U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated suggestion that the U.S. could send in the armed forces, tweeting that he was formally proposing to the international community that it have "all options open" – a euphemism widely understood to refer to the…Read more …

The Painful Journey For Venezuelans Abroad The millions of Venezuelans who fled their homeland know that even if the country climbs out of its current darkness, life elsewhere is still a better option.

The Painful Journey For Venezuelans Abroad The millions of Venezuelans who fled their homeland know that even if the country climbs out of its current darkness, life elsewhere is still a better option.
  • February 11, 2019
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By Simeon Tegel LIMA, PERU — VENEZUELAN exiles Nayise González and Oswaldo Romero could not be clearer about their desire to return to their troubled homeland. "Of course we want to go back," says González, 38, who arrived in the Peruvian capital in November after an eight-day bus ride with not much more than the clothes she was wearing. "It is our country, our home. It is where our lives and our families are." But before that day eventually comes, González and Romero, a security guard and former police officer, are very clear about…Read more …