Professor in graduate programs at the universities of San Andrés, FLACSO, Tres de Febrero, San Martín, Buenos Aires and others. PhD in Political Science and Master in Public Administration from the Univ. of California-Berkeley. Senior Researcher CONICET.
It is no coincidence that, after so many years of ignoring the immigration issue, the creation of a public agency to address this problem is announced in the middle of the campaign
As of August 2023, 7.71 million Venezuelans had massively emigrated, a phenomenon that began to be registered notably in 2015. The vast majority of them are based in countries in the region.
The normalization of public opinion in Latin America about the Darién Gap leave in the background that some 200,000 migrants have crossed it in the first half of 2023 alone.
At the end of the 1990's, before Chávez came to power, PDVSA was ranked as the fourth most important oil company in the world according to the American Petroleum Institute's ranking. Today it occupies the last place among 253 oil companies.
What happened in Venezuela, which four decades ago was an example of a democratic model, in the midst of a South America ruled by military governments. Today the country is at the bottom in terms of freedom, democracy and rule of law.
