More than eight million Venezuelans living abroad are calling for representation in the National Assembly, a goal that would require a constitutional amendment along with electoral and institutional reforms.
Without reconciliation between the Venezuela within and the Venezuela abroad, social fragmentation will continue to limit any attempt at sustainable national reconstruction.
The oil boom has ceased to translate into effective power, revealing the structural limits of a model without institutions or a sustainable productive base.
After Maduro’s fall, Venezuela faces the dilemma of abrupt transitions: how to prevent the end of authoritarianism from giving rise to new forms of unstable or extractive power.
