Episode 9: Our guest is Maria Isabel Puerta Riera, visiting professor of political science and international politics at Valencia College, and Secretary for the Latin American Studies Association's Venezuelan Studies section. Her new book is The Crisis of democracy: on the Threshold of Post Democracy?

Veneco Podcast: Episode 9 - Maria Isabel Puerta Riera

Episode 10: Our guest is Antulio Rosales, assistant professor of political science at the University of New Brunswick, and a researcher focused on natural resource extraction, energy and global development, with a focus on Venezuela and Latin America.

Veneco Podcast: Episode 10 - Antulio Rosales

Episode 11: Our guest is Carlos José Faillace Carreño, Venezuelan urbanist, intellectual omnivore, and preventive pessimist.

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Veneco Podcast: Episode 11 - Carlos José Faillace Carreño

Our guest is Yoletty Bracho, PhD candidate in Political Sciences at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in France. Her research focuses on participatory public policies during the Chavista era in Venezuela.

Veneco Podcast: Episode 12 - Yoletty Bracho

Episode 13: Our guest is Laura Gamboa, assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Political Science Department and the College of Social and Behavioral Science. Her upcoming book on opposition strategies in Colombia and Venezuela within contexts of erosion of democracy is Resisting Backsliding: Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy.

Photo credit: Fernando Vergara / Associated Press

Veneco Podcast: Episode 13 - Laura Gamboa

Episode 14: Our guest is William Neuman, journalist and author of "Things Are Never So Bad They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela. He was the New York Times' Andes Bureau Chief from 2012 to 2016. 

Veneco Podcast: Episode 14 - William Neuman

Episode 15: Our guest is Omar Hammoud-Gallego, researcher and Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy at the London School of Economics, specializing in migration and refugee policies.

Veneco Podcast: Episode 15 - Omar Hammoud-Gallego

Episode 16: Our guest is Tamara Adrián, Venezuelan human rights activist, lawyer, and member of Unidos Por la Dignidad (UPD), a social movement advocating for the rights of the LGBTI community in Venezuela. Tamara was elected to congress during the 2015 National Assembly elections in Venezuela, becoming one of the first transgender members of congress in the Western Hemisphere. You can follow UPD on Twitter @TodesDignidad

Veneco Podcast: Episode 16 - Tamara Adrián

Este evento virtual se llevó a cabo el 3 de abril de 2023 patrocinado por el programa de estudios latinoamericanos y hemisféricos (LAHSP, por sus siglas en inglés) de the George Washington University, con el apoyo de la Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA, LATAM@GW, y NACLA Report on the Americas. Este diálogo reúne a activistas, académicos y organizadores de base a lo largo del espectro político para crear una visión sobre el futuro de los movimientos sociales en Venezuela y poder debatir distintas perspectivas sobre teorías del cambio. Contó con la participación de:

- Andrea Paola Hernández: periodista investigativa y activista feminista de Maracaibo, Venezuela. Su enfoque investigativo se centra en temas de género e interseccionalidad en los movimientos sociales de Venezuela
y visibilidad queer afroindígena. Ha escrito para the Guardian, Open Democracy, the New Humanitarian, Global Voices, entre otros medios y plataformas.
- Atenea Jiménez Lemon: socióloga egresada de la Universidad Central de Venezuela especializada en movimientos sociales. Es también Investigadora de la Escuela Bolivariana del Poder Popular, y Vocera y fundadora de la Red Nacional de Comuneros y Comuneras y la Universidad Campesina de Venezuela Argimiro Gabaldón, la primera universidad comunalizada del mundo.
- Marialbert Barrios: diputada electa a la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela para el período entre 2016 y 2021 como miembro del partido Primero Justicia, representando las parroquias de La Pastora, El Junquito y Catia. En aquel entonces, la diputada más joven electa en la historia del país. Actualmente es directora del proyecto Wommu, una plataforma orientada a la formación del liderazgo femenino en Venezuela bajo los pilares de la pluralidad, el cierre de las brechas sociales y la apuesta por una sociedad más justa. 
- Yoletty Bracho: doctora en ciencias políticas de Université Lumière Lyon 2 en Francia. Su enfoque investigativo se centra en la relación condicionada entre el estado venezolano y la clase trabajadora a través las políticas participativas de la era Chavista. Recientemente también ha escrito sobre la migración venezolana y la violencia de estado en los sectores populares urbanos.
- Diego Abente-Brun: director del programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Hemisféricos en the George Washington University - Elliott School of International Affairs.

REPENSANDO LOS MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES EN VENEZUELA - UN DIÁLOGO AMPLIO

Our guest is Phil Gunson, journalist, consultant, and senior analyst for the Andes at the International Crisis Group. He joins us to discuss the July 28 presidential elections, the possibilities of international mediation, and the future of Chavismo.

Veneco Podcast: Episode 17 - Phil Gunson

Our guest is Dr. Nadia Mosquera Muriel, Assistant Professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specializes in Afro-Latin American social movements, particularly in Venezuela and Colombia. Her upcoming book is Building Blackness: Culture and Resistance in the Afterlives of the Plantation in Venezuela.

Photo credit: Nadia Mosquera Muriel. March commemorating the abolition of slavery (Caracas, Venezuela, March 24, 2015)

Veneco Podcast: Episode 18 - Nadia Mosquera Muriel

Our guest is Dr. Orçun Selçuk, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Luther College and the author of the new book The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization, a comparative analysis centered on how populist leaders in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Turkey leverage propaganda and emotional appeals to deepen societal divides, and the strategies opposition movements employ to counter these. 

Veneco Podcast: Episode 19 - Orçun Selçuk

Our guest is Raylí Luján, Venezuelan journalist and columnist for La Vida de Nos, as well as the recipient of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) 2018 South American Journalism Award. Photo credit: EFE - Ronald Pena R

Veneco Podcast: Episode 20 - Raylí Luján

Our guest is Gabriel Hetland, sociologist and associate professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino/Latina Studies at the University at Albany SUNY. He is the author of Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn.



Veneco Podcast: Episode 21 - Gabriel Hetland

Episode 1: Our guest is Javier Corrales, professor of Political Science at Amherst College and co-author of Dragon in the Tropics: The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chávez

Veneco Podcast: Episode 1 - Javier Corrales

Episode 2: Our guest is Alejandro Velasco, associate professor of Latin American History at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and Executive Director at North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). His book is Barrio Rising: Urban popular politics and the making of Modern Venezuela

Veneco Podcast: Episode 2 - Alejandro Velasco

Episode 3: Our guest is Clifton Ross, acclaimed writer, director, producer, poet, and co-author of “Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements”. He has been reporting on Latin American revolutionary and social movements since 1982. His new documentary film is “In the Shadow of the Revolution.”

Veneco Podcast: Episode 3 - Clifton Ross

Episodio 4: Nuestra invitada en esta edición en Español es Margarita López Maya, historiadora y profesora titular jubilada del Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo (CENDES) de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. Fue directora de la Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales y presidenta de la Sección de Estudios Venezolanistas del Latin American Studies Association. Su más reciente libro es El ocaso del Chavismo: Venezuela 2005-2015.

Veneco Podcast: Episodio 4 - Margarita López Maya

Episode 5: Our guest is Jennifer McCoy, professor of political science at Georgia State University, conflict analyst, international mediator, and former director of the Carter Center’s Americas program. Her latest book co-authored by Francisco Diez is International Mediation in Venezuela.

Veneco Podcast: Episode 5 - Jennifer McCoy

Episode 6 - Border Edition: Our guests are Aragorn Storm Miller, professor at Central Texas College and author of Precarious Paths to Freedom: The United States, Venezuela, and the Latin American Cold War; and Robert A. Karl, assistant professor of History at Princeton University and the author of Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the making of contemporary Colombia.

Veneco Podcast: Episode 6 - Aragorn Storm Miller & Robert Karl

Episodio 7: Nuestra invitada es Luz Mely Reyes, periodista, analista política, directora y cofundadora de Efecto Cocuyo. Galardonada Premio Internacional a la Libertad de Prensa del Comité para la Protección de Periodistas (CPJ), Premio Gabriel García Márquez de Periodismo 2018, y Premio WOLA de Derechos Humanos. Su más reciente proyecto es Venezuela Migrante.

Veneco Podcast: Episodio 7 - Luz Mely Reyes

Episode 8: Our guest is Xili Fernandez, Venezuelan political scientist and feminist activist, with an extensive trajectory of humanitarian work in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. She is the editor and founder of Venezuelan Voices together with Simon Rodriguez. Photo credit: Iván E. Reyes

For more information on Linda Loaiza's story and the historic Inter-American Court of Human Rights' ruling see: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/10/i-was-sexually-abused-humiliated-beaten-legal-victory-great-balm-linda-loaiza

Veneco Podcast: Episode 8 - Xili Fernandez

Veneco Podcast – Venezuelan Democracy & Social Movements is a podcast by Juan Andrés Misle. Through a series of interviews to experts on the field of Venezuelan democracy and social movements — academics, researchers, advocates and authors — Veneco seeks to create a nuanced platform for venezolanistas to discuss and debate the most pressing issues in contemporary Venezuela.

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