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...