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The Crisis in Venezuela: A New Chapter, or the Final Chapter?
Author(s) -
Briceño-Ruiz José
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
latin american policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2041-7373
pISSN - 2041-7365
DOI - 10.1111/lamp.12165
Subject(s) - proclamation , interim , argument (complex analysis) , political crisis , political science , politics , power (physics) , political economy , development economics , economics , law , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
This paper analyses the current political crisis in Venezuela after the proclamation of Juan Guaido as interim President in January 2019. The main argument here is that current crisis is the most recent chapter a long political crisis that began with rise to power of Hugo Chávez in 1999. A brief historical analysis of the previous chapters of the crisis is done as well an evaluation about the extent to which those previous events influence on current ones. The paper ends with an evalution of the possible scenarios of solution of the crisis and the role that Venezuelan domestic actors and international actors will play.