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Inside Venezuela’s Struggle for Democracy: A Conversation with Paola Bautista de Alemán

24 min · 2 de mar de 2026
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Venezuelan journalist and political activist Paola Bautista de Alemán joins Adriana Albanus, PhD student in Political Science and Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, for a conversation on Venezuela’s long fight for freedom and democratic renewal. Drawing on her work as director of FORMA, Bautista de Alemán reflects on how democratic values are sustained under authoritarian pressure. The episode also examines the international aftermath of the recent U.S. operation that captured Nicolás Maduro and the competing debates it triggered and what external pressure can (and can’t) achieve for a democratic transition.

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