The Future of Venezuela Initiative
The Project influences policy dialogue on the future of Venezuela through strategic convening and critical research and policy analysis that produces practical, evidence-based, and forward-looking policy recommendations
Venezuela is a failed state that poses a significant security threat to the Western Hemisphere. The Future of Venezuela Initiative of the Center for Strategic & International Studies is led by director Ryan C. Berg.
Recent programming includes the following topics:
- A roadmap and lessons for negotiations in Venezuela.
- Violence and insecurity amidst the burgeoning presence of non-state actors.
- Growing geopolitical challenges borne of foreign actors that prop up the Maduro Regime.
- Tackling environmental degradation caused by illegal mining and gas flaring.
- The role of the oil sector in Venezuela’s economic degradation and economic rebuilding.
- Improving the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance to Venezuelan migrants in neighboring countries and attending to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Venezuela.
- Advancing effective political engagement of youth and women in a democratic transition.
- The effect and future of international sanctions on Venezuela.
- Henry Ziemer
- Program Coordinator and Research Assistant, Americas Program
- 202.775.3244
- HZiemer@csis.org
Experts

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Sharpening the Democracy Playbook: A Practical Approach for Venezuela
Event by Ryan C. Berg , Christopher Sabatini , José Ignacio Hernandez , and Alexandra Winkler — August 25, 2022

Venezuela's 2024 Elections: Understanding Participation under Unfree and Unfair Conditions
Brief by Ryan C. Berg and Henry Ziemer — August 23, 2022

Maduro’s Fortune: Petro in Colombia and a Left-Leaning Latin America
Commentary by Ryan C. Berg and Alexandra Winkler — June 27, 2022

The Return to Mexico
Commentary by Antonio De La Cruz — May 18, 2022

Parsing Fact and Fiction in the Maduro Regime’s Narrative of Economic Recovery
Commentary by Ryan C. Berg — April 22, 2022

Dancing with the Dictator in Caracas
Commentary by Ryan C. Berg — March 22, 2022

Authoritarian Survival: Venezuelan Gold and Nicaragua’s Ortega-Murillo Regime
Commentary by Ryan C. Berg and Karla Rios — March 8, 2022

What Does Russia’s War in Ukraine Mean for Latin America and the Caribbean?
Commentary by Ryan C. Berg — March 1, 2022

The Future of Security in Venezuela
Event by Ryan C. Berg , William Brownfield , Liliana Ayalde , and Ivan Simonovis — December 20, 2021

Venezuela: A Time for Opposition Reflection and Renovation
Commentary by Ryan C. Berg and Alexandra Winkler — December 17, 2021
