Current Events Flash Panel: Venezuela in Crisis

This panel will look at the political and economic situation in Venezuela, including events that led to the current state of affairs and thoughts about the future of the country.
Featuring:
Faculty Fellow Michael Coppedge, Professor of Political Science
Faculty Fellow Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs
Visiting Fellow Verónica Zubillaga, Associate Professor, Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas)
PhD Fellow Bernardo Pulido Marquez, Doctor of Juridical Science Candidate
Moderated by:
Visiting Fellow Claudio Orrego, International Urban Consultant and Former Governor of Santiago

Michael Coppedge
Michael Coppedge is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a faculty fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research interests include democratization and the quality of democracy; Latin American parties and party systems; Venezuelan politics; and comparative politics methodology. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 1995...
Verónica Zubillaga
This profile was current as of 2019, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Veronica Zubillaga (PhD, Catholic University of Louvain), a 2018-2019 Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow, is a sociologist who specializes in the study of urban violence in Latin America. Her research focuses on youth gang violence in Caracas, gender, and public policy...
Bernardo Pulido Marquez
Bernardo Pulido Marquez is a Doctor of Juridical Science candidate at the Law School. He obtained his law degree (LLB equivalent) from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) at Caracas, Venezuela, where he also did studies on Venezuelan Constitutional Law...