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Venezuela at a Crossroads: Political Developments and U.S. Relations

Venezuela at the Crossroads, a timely conversation with Boris Muñoz and Dorothy Kronick, moderated by Roberto Patiño, on the country’s ongoing struggle for democracy. The discussion will explore Venezuela’s political and economic crisis, human rights, and the significance of María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize. Bios: Dorothy Kronick is a political scientist focused on contemporary Latin American politics, especially Venezuelan politics. Her work on crime and policing in the Americas highlights unintended consequences of policies such as seizing illegal drugs or rewriting criminal procedure codes. She also studies democratic backsliding and competitive authoritarianism. Kronick’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, Science, Science Advances, International Organization, Political Science Research and Methods, the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution, among other outlets. Her commentary on Venezuelan politics has been published in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.A. in Economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining the Goldman School, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania. Boris Muñoz is a Venezuelan-American journalist. He has been published in several magazines and newspapers in the United States, Latin America, Venezuela, and Europe, including The New York Times, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Gatopardo, El Malpensante, and Internazionale. In 2016, he founded The New York Times en Español's opinion page and served as a senior staff editor for Latin America on the English op-ed page. He is the author of the books La Ley de la Calle: testimonios de jóvenes protagonistas de la violencia en Caracas, 1995; Tan iguales tan diferentes, 2004, and Despachos del Imperio, 2007. A number of anthologies of Latin American journalism have featured his chronicles and profiles. Muñoz has received multiple awards, including the Maria Moors Cabot Award from Columbia University in 2019, the Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University in 2009, and the 1st Accessit for Fernando Lázaro Carreter Award in Madrid in 1999. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars appointed him Public Policy Fellow for its Latin American Program. During this time, he conducted the study, “The State of Opinion Journalism in Latin America,” with support from Luminate. He earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic American literature at Rutgers University (taken from The Wilson Center). Roberto Patiño is a Venezuelan democracy and human rights activist. He holds a master’s in public policy from Harvard University and a BS in manufacturing engineering from Universidad Simon Bolivar. Patiño is the founder of the NGOs Mi Convive and Alimenta La Solidaridad that work in 216 vulnerable communities empowering +4,000 women volunteers to feed daily 14,500 children and reduce violence in hot spots. Patiño is an expert in citizen security, negotiation, and conflict resolution. He is a former leader of the student movement. He currently resides in Caracas, Venezuela (atlanticcouncil.org).