Harold Trinkunas

Brookings Institution

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Senior Fellow and Director of the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution's Foreign Policy program

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Venezuela, with the world's largest oil reserves, is in chaos after weeks of increasingly bloody violence on city streets and in middle-class neighborhoods.

Amid Nationwide Protest, Can Venezuelan Chavismo Survive?

Venezuela, with the world's largest oil reserves, is in chaos after weeks of increasingly bloody violence on city streets and in middle-class neighborhoods.

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