HBO What to Do About Venezuela

Thursday, October 27, 2016
Reuters
Speakers
Matthew M. Taylor

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Roger Francisco Noriega

Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Former Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Patrick Dennis Duddy

Director, Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies, Duke University; Former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Presider
Diana V. Negroponte

Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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Experts discuss U.S. policy options toward Venezuela in response to food and medicine shortages, soaring crime rates, declining oil production, and a government crackdown on the opposition.

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