Tag: Venezuela
Black-market oil buyers will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US...
Francisco J. Monaldi, Rice University
The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast looks designed to...
The lost history of Latin America’s role in averting catastrophe during...
Renata Keller, University of Nevada, Reno
Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from...
María Corina Machado’s peace prize follows Nobel tradition of awarding recipients...
David Smilde, Tulane University
Few can doubt the courage María Corina Machado has shown in fighting for a return...
Tiny treetop flowers foster incredible beetle biodiversity
Caroline S. Chaboo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
The big idea
Biologists have long known that rainforest treetops...
Catholic Church urges Venezuela to unite against coronavirus
David Smilde, Tulane University and Hugo Pérez Hernáiz, Universidad Central de Venezuela
Coronavirus hasn’t yet hit Venezuela as hard as neighboring Brazil and Colombia. But...
US sanctions on Venezuelan oil could cut the output of refineries...
Eric Smith, Tulane University
U.S. sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company, along with some government officials and executives, are intended to put pressure...
Curious Kids: why don’t poorer countries just print more money?
Alan Shipman, The Open University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages, where The Conversation asks experts to answer questions from kids....
Trump sees opportunity in Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis as midterms approach
Marco Aponte-Moreno, St Mary's College of California
President Donald Trump has spoken forcefully about the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, calling it a “human tragedy”...
EXPLORING NATURE
What makes a true Santa is inside – and comes with...
Christina Hymer, University of Tennessee
When you picture Santa Claus, a white, bearded, overweight and jolly man who dashes...
