In response to the proposed constitutional reform in Venezuela, led by the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and spearheaded by the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, public opinion aligned with the opposition has expressed the need to organize a united front in defense of the National Constitution. This Constitution was enacted during Hugo Chávez’s presidency in 1999—a document that, ironically given the current context, both Maduro and William Saab helped draft as members of the original constituent assembly. The question of why change a Constitution created by the very political system still in power today is easy to answer: law and democracy prove inconvenient for those who hold power. According to the ruling party, the “bourgeois State model” must be “overcome.” Unfortunately, this behavior is not new in Venezuela’s republican tradition. Since 1811, the country has had 25 Constitutions, many of them crafted solely to ensure the continued rule of the leader...

The lack of consensus between OAS members has weakened its capacity for action, and many governments have questioned its role as a mediator in regional conflicts.

Recently, the ruling Salvadoran party, Nuevas Ideas, inaugurated a political training school in Nuevo Cuscatlán. The event was headlined by Félix Ulloa, Vice President of the Central American country, and China’s ambassador to El Salvador, Zhang Yanhui. According to the Central American news portal Expediente Público, the institute was reportedly sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), following a previous visit to Beijing by Ulloa and Xavier Zablah Bukele – leader of Nuevas Ideas and cousin of the Salvadoran president – during which several interparty cooperation agreements were finalized. This event highlights the diversified strategies China employs to expand its influence in the Western Hemisphere. While public attention toward the Asian giant typically focuses on intergovernmental diplomacy, trade relations, or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), less consideration is given to the forms of cooperation carried out by various international outreach bodies tied to the CCP in Latin America. The Czech...