Francisco Toro

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Francisco Toro is executive editor at CaracasChronicles.com.

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Conflict Zones in the Time of Coronavirus: War and War by Other Means

The coronavirus has devastated fragile and conflict-affected states, exacerbating suffering and, in some cases, shifting power dynamics in ways that are likely to influence politics or the conflicts even when the pandemic subsides.

· December 17, 2020
In the Media
Venezuela’s Problem Isn’t Socialism

The deeper driver of Venezuela’s implosion isn’t Maduro’s doctrinaire adherence to socialism but, rather, the country’s slide into kleptocracy.

· January 27, 2020
Foreign Affairs
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Is the Venezuela Crisis Becoming a Proxy Conflict?
May 21, 2019

What risks does deeper foreign intervention in the crisis pose for the fate of the Venezuelan opposition led by interim President Juan Guaidó and the region as a whole?

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  • Rebecca Bill Chavez
  • Alexander Gabuev
  • Michael Shifter
  • Francisco Toro
  • Bianna Golodryga
In the Media
Venezuela’s Suicide: Lessons From a Failed State

Venezuelans’ best hope is to ensure that the flickering embers of protest and social dissent are not extinguished and that resistance to dictatorship is sustained.

· October 16, 2018
Foreign Affairs
In the Media
Why Nicolás Maduro Clings to Power

Maduro has no clue how to reverse any of the multiple crises he has set off. At this point, the goal of staying in power is just to be in power.

· May 30, 2018
Atlantic
In the Media
Russia Is Now Venezuela’s Only Hope

Russia is Venezuela’s lender of last resort, the last and only place the government can turn in search of a financial lifeline.

· December 11, 2017
Moscow Times
In the Media
Venezuela’s Democratic Façade Has Completely Crumbled

As Venezuela sinks deeper into the Western Hemisphere’s most intractable political and economic crisis, the time has come to ask some hard questions about how the Chávez regime could have conned so many international observers for so long.

· July 1, 2016
Washington Post
In the Media
Venezuela Is Falling Apart

In the last two years Venezuela has experienced the kind of implosion that hardly ever occurs in a middle-income country like it outside of war.

· May 12, 2016
Atlantic