Carlos Eduardo Pina

The ac­cu­sa­tion that Cara­cas is a ‘threat’ to the re­gion is a po­lit­i­cal talk­ing point rather than a demon­stra­ble re­al­i­ty.

Apart from for­eign pol­i­cy con­sid­er­a­tions, one of the main dri­vers of Trump’s pol­i­cy on Venezuela is the 2020 vote.

There are a num­ber of rea­sons why Bei­jing con­tin­ues to back Maduro’s gov­ern­ment de­spite suf­fer­ing fi­nan­cial loss­es.