Venezuela’s Epic Movement Towards Democracy

• Presented by Hopkins at Home, The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and the Alumni in Government, Academia, Law & Policy Community •
• Featuring María Corina Machado and David Smolansky, moderated by Anne Applebaum • 

For 25 years, Venezuela has endured a dictatorship with devastating consequences. On July 28th, in the country’s most unfair and least transparent election, María Corina Machado led a democratic movement that defeated Nicolás Maduro at the polls. Refusing to concede, the regime responded with brutal repression, illegally detaining over 2,000 Venezuelans—including women and children—and killing at least 30 people. Despite this cruelty, the democratic movement persists, forging a global coalition to unite efforts toward a democratic transition.

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