The Venezuela Warning: How a Criminalized State Became a Blueprint for Latin America’s Collapse
What Venezuela’s Engineered Breakdown Reveals About Latin America’s Future—and the Blind Spots of North American and European Democracies.
We are living through one of the most violent and unstable geopolitical transitions since the end of the Second World War. The post-1945 order is fragmenting into a volatile, multipolar landscape where great-power rivalry, proxy wars, economic coercion, and criminal economies overlap in ways the old diplomatic playbook simply cannot manage. Levels of armed conflict and political violence have risen in most of the last 15–17 years, while global institutions that were supposed to organize stability – from the UN Security Council to the WTO – are increasingly paralyzed or bypassed. What we are seeing is not just a shift in alliances; it is the structural weakening of the very idea that rules, institutions, and diplomacy can contain power.
