Please join us at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) for a hybrid discussion on violence in Venezuela facilitated through a presentation of the book titled, The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela: Revolution, Crime, and Policing During Chavismo by authors David Smilde, Verónica Zubillaga and Rebecca Hanson. The book explains the rise of violence under both Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro—arguing that violence arose from the interrelated factors of a particular type of revolutionary governance, extraordinary oil revenues, a reliance on militarized policing, and the persistence of concentrated disadvantage. Police violence has left thousands dead and the families of victims are organizing to seek justice. WOLA’s Venezuela Program Director recently traveled to the Colombia-Venezuela border and will share some of her insights from that visit.
WOLA invites you to join us for a conversation with panelists:
Verónica Zubillaga, Venezuelan Sociologist, Professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas and currently a visiting Professor at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University
Rebecca Hanson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and the Center for Latin American Studies and Director of UF’s International Ethnography Lab at the University of Florida
David Smilde, Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations at Tulane University and Senior Fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America
Moderated by:
Laura Dib, WOLA Director for Venezuela
Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Time: 2:00pm-3:30pm ET
Location: WOLA Office, 1666 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 400
Click here to register for the event.
This event will be held in English.
