La caída de Nicolás Maduro no garantiza una transición democrática estable en Venezuela. 📸 Baires Post

✍️ Sahasranshu Dash y @maripuerta.com latinoamerica21.com/es/el-despue...

In our piece with Prof. @vasabjit.bsky.social, we argue that the problems with the armed forces predate Maduro and even Chávez; no one should count on the Venezuelan Military surrendering its privileges easily foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/07/v...

If you are interested in the longer history, check this out. Venezuela’s extractive constitutionalism: between a nationalised and privatised petro-state. It's open access, published in Third World Quarterly. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A un mes de los eventos del 3 de enero en Venezuela, @masayalb.bsky.social analiza la crisis desde sus impactos materiales: el retiro del Estado, la expoliación del trabajo de cuidados y el desgaste sistemático de los cuerpos de mujeres y niñas. 🔗 Lee el reportaje completo aquí: bit.ly/4qYPvxj

I wanted to make a thread about the useful analyses coming out about the situation in Venezuela, but there is a lot, and everyday new things come out. It may be more useful to share some of the existing analysis of how we got here. Books in no particular order and on various themes/issues... 🧵

Article recipient of the Paula Vázquez best essay award for Social Sciences 2025: "Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" is now out in Social Politics. Congratulations @masayalb.bsky.social & @antuliorosales.bsky.social

An earlier version of this article was awarded the Paula Vazquez Prize for Best Essay in Social Science by the Venezuelan Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association @lasavenezuela.bsky.social Thanks to them for this recognition to our work!

Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History. It is now open access! online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

@antuliorosales.bsky.social y yo estamos muy contentes por este reconocimiento y con ánimos de difundir el artículo en cuanto sea publicado. Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela 🇻🇪♥️

Muy feliz y honrado de recibir este premio que lleva el nombre de Paula Vásquez. Si por alguna razón no tienen acceso al artículo pueden escribirme al DM. #GentedeMar ❤️🤓

Congrats to Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez for this prize! Keep an eye out for the prizewinning article, forthcoming in the February 2026 issue (an advance publication version is available here via @dukepress.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1215/0018...)

🚨La SVS de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025🚨 MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES “Embodying the cost of a predatory state: Depletion via social reproduction in Venezuela’s crisis (2013-2021)” de @masayalb.bsky.social y @antuliorosales.bsky.social

🚨La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 🚨 MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES “Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social

Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Is Said to Have Turned Before U.S. Attacked It www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

On the US incursion in the Caribbean with eye on #Venezuela, we recommend looking at our members' analysis for guidance and comprehension of the complex situation. In no specific order and not necessarily in agreement amongst them. 🧵

Another interesting @jplaeditor.bsky.social issue with articles on Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Chile, and a comparative analysis of democratic transitions @giga-hamburg.de www.giga-hamburg.de/en/press/new...

New article out now in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, "Transnational Organized Crime and the Venezuelan State". 📰 muse.jhu.edu/article/965801 📄 DOI: doi.org/10.1353/gia.... In it, I examine the relationship between, well, transnational crime and the Venezuelan state under Maduro.

Read John Polga-Hecimovich's "Transnational Organized Crime and the Venezuelan State" in the new issue of Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, now available to read via @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/965801

This desire to embrace a China-style mode of development may be difficult to achieve, due to the dynamics of primarization, opaqueness, and weak state capacity that China helped cement. Check out the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 New on First View! Tom Long (‪@tomlongphd.bsky.social‬) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz ‪(@caschulz.bsky.social‬) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism. Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...

And check out the underpinning research, open access in APSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Out now in New Political Economy is our article on China's impact in Venezuela's economic development. @benedictebull.bsky.social and I analyze the China-Venezuela relationship's effect on three main dimensions of development: industrialisation, economic diversification, and institutional capacity 🧵

Coming soon: Public Diplomacy in Authoritarian Regimes by Carola Richter & Vedat Demir (Editors): Chapter 9: Venezuela: From Oil Diplomacy to Disinformation Pawn by Maria Puerta Riera www.barnesandnoble.com/w/public-dip...

LASA Venezuela anuncia la convocatoria al Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 al Mejor artículo en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades y Mejor ponencia de estudiante de postgrado. Fecha límite para envío de sus artículos o ponencias: 30 de agosto de 2025.

💥💥💥CFP "Encrucijadas identitarias y transformación social: repensar los feminismos en el siglo XXI". Fecha límite para envíos: 15 de septiembre de 2025. Más información: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/le...

Una oleada de arrestos de opositores marca las elecciones parlamentarias y regionales en Venezuela - elpais.com/america/2025...