While attention is rightly focused on Venezuela’s politico-humanitarian crisis, the precarious situation that has been evolving in Haiti over the past year has gotten dramatically worse. The crisis has rocked Haiti, and part of it links back to Venezuela.

Mexico is well behind other industri­alized countries when it comes to innovation. CSIS expert Richard Miles examines this phenomenon and offers recommendations based on a recent conference by CSIS in partnership with the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations.

What started out as U.S. diplomatic support for the new, constitutionally legitimate government of Juan Guaidó in Venezuela is now being treated in the international media as a possible U.S. military intervention.

Christopher Sands, non-resident senior associate with the CSIS Americas Program, argues that China is testing the Trump administration by retaliating against Canada in light of the United States’ extradition request of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer for Huawei.

2019 will be another pivotal year across the map in the Western Hemisphere with upcoming national elections in seven countries—all of which has the potential to affect both domestic politics and geopolitical relations within the region.

While the notion of “Troika of Tyranny” is a good start in recalibrating U.S. policy toward the wider Caribbean region, the current administration is vulnerable to the challenges of operationalizing and sustaining it, writes Georges Fauriol.

From a constitutional law perspective, Venezuela is in a transitional process where under Articles 233 and 333 of the constitution, Juan Guaidó, as the designated interim president, should be able to seize the presidency.
 

As Venezuela does not currently have a constitutionally legitimate president or vice president, Guaidó is well within his power as president of the National Assembly to assume the presidency of Venezuela on an interim basis, writes CSIS Americas expert Moises Rendon.

This February marks the 20th anniversary of Hugo Chávez’s rise to power in Venezuela. Unfortunately, under his regime, one of the most prosperous and promising countries in Latin America and the developing world has been in a downward trajectory. How did this happen?