What lies ahead for Latin America after the Venezuela raid?

By Nicolas Forsans, Professor of Management and Co-director of the Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Essex

The Trump administration has justified the recent capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro as a law enforcement operation to dismantle a “narco‑state”. It also claimed it would break Venezuela’s ties to China, Russia and Iran, and put the world’s largest known oil reserves back under US‑friendly control.

This mix of counter‑narcotics, great power rivalry and energy security had already been elevated to a central priority by the administration in its national…

Read complete article

~	US: Minneapolis Killing by ICE Unjustified

~	Venezuela: Arbitrary detentions must end and all victims must be immediately released

~	Iran: UN human rights chief ‘deeply disturbed’ by protest-related violence

~	With Maduro gone and Venezuela’s oil cut off, Cuba is isolated and vulnerable

~	As the Arctic warms up, the race to control the region is growing ever hotter

~	Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science

~	The honeybee that stung Jamaica and yielded sweetness

~	Iran: Internet shutdown hides violations in escalating deadly crackdown on protesters

~	‘That’s not how I pictured it’ – why book-to-film adaptations so often disappoint

~	I taught art in a high-security prison – Waiting for the Out took me straight back to my classroom