With Nicolás Maduro seemingly ensconced in power in Caracas following elections widely decried as fraudulent last July, and Donald Trump again in the White House but now more fully in control of Congress and the Republican Party, the stage seems set for a new round of confrontation between Venezuela and the US. Or is it?
Join Venezuelan historian and analyst Alejandro Velasco for a discussion on what lessons and prospects Venezuela’s recent past may hold for the future of relations with the United States, and vice versa, in the years to come.
Speaker:
Alejandro Velasco holds joint appointments in the Gallatin School and the Department of History at NYU, and was Executive Editor of the NACLA Report on the Americas from 2015 to 2021. His first book, Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela (University of California Press, 2015), won the 2016 Fernando Coronil Prize for best book on Venezuela. Velasco’s editorials and analysis have appeared in NACLA, Nueva Sociedad, The Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Current History, History News Network, BBC History Magazine, and others. Velasco also frequently contributes radio and television commentary in outlets such as NPR, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, CBS, France 24, the BBC, and the CBC.