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The Venezuelan writer, political analyst, and advisor to the Disenso Foundation will be one of the speakers at the international conference to be held on September 3 in Santiago. His participation will offer a specialized perspective on the threats facing Ibero-American democracies and the region’s political challenges.

Venezuelan writer and political analyst Alejandro Peña Esclusa confirmed his participation in the V Regional Meeting of Foro Madrid , which will bring together leaders, academics, representatives of think tanks and representatives of civil society from Europe, the United States and Latin …

Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa. Esclusa details how narco-trafficking infected the São Paulo Forum, causing leftist leaders to reject democratic losses. Araújo argues regional stability requires a dedicated alliance to eradicate the link between communism and organized crime.

Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa. Esclusa details the Venezuelan regime’s negligent earthquake response, focusing on hiding illicit assets rather than saving lives. Araújo argues the U.S. must do more to dismantle the criminal network currently governing the country.

Over the past 25 years, the relationship between China and Latin America has undergone a dramatic shift. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, in 2000, China accounted for less than 2 percent of Latin America’s exports. Over the next eight years, trade grew at an annual rate of 31 percent. By 2021, bilateral trade reached over $450 billion, and it rose to a record $518 billion in 2024. Today, China is South America’s top trading partner and the second-largest trading partner for Latin America as a whole, after the United States. China’s interests in Latin America encompass various….

When Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces Jan. 3, reactions abroad quickly polarized between enthusiasm at the neutralization of a dictator and accusations of illegitimate foreign intervention. In Venezuela, the reaction was more circumspect, as the population is aware that the removal of a leader is not enough on its own to dismantle a regime. For the Catholic Church in Venezuela — one of the few institutions to have resisted the communist regime consistently — the moment is being read as a decisive threshold. For democracy advocates, the question is not only whether a dictatorship has….

We asked Alejandro Peña Esclusa, a Venezuelan writer, political analyst, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Fundamental Rights, about the American intervention to capture President Maduro and its political consequences in Venezuela.

On 3 January, the US military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and escorted him to the United States to stand trial on charges including narco-terrorism and drug trafficking. The operation—carried out in open disregard of the foundational principles on which the liberal world order was built—sparked intense global debate over sovereignty, great-power interventionism, and even forms of 21st-century colonialism. Against this backdrop, the Budapest-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and the Christian Democratic Institute (CDI) organized a panel discussion featuring former….

Alejandro Peña Esclusa is a writer, analyst, and political consultant. He is a renowned expert on the Sao Paulo Forum, about which he has written four books. He was persecuted, imprisoned, and forced into exile by the Venezuelan regime. On January 3, the United States carried out a large-scale military attack against Venezuela, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in Caracas. We discuss what this military intervention means, and its consequences, for Venezuela and for the entire continent. The operation to capture Maduro has provoked a furious reaction from the Left….

As Trump-deranged leftists hyperventilate over the U.S. raid snatching Venezuelan tyrant Nicolás Maduro, a prominent Venezuelan exile and former presidential candidate is cheering the move as the only way to dismantle a drug cartel masquerading as a government. Alejandro Peña Esclusa, speaking from exile, laid bare the brutal reality of Maduro’s rule, exposing it as a narco-state fueling chaos across the Americas. Peña Esclusa, a Venezuelan engineer, writer, and political consultant who ran for president in 1988, has been a vocal critic of leftist regimes in Latin America, focusing on threats….

Colleagues Alejandro Peña Esclusa and Ernesto Araújo. Alejandro Peña Esclusa celebrates the swift US capture of Maduro as Venezuela’s liberation. He argues Vice President Delcy Rodriguez must now dismantle the «Cartel of the Suns» to avoid Maduro’s fate. Ernesto Araújo frames this as a decisive victory for freedom, forcing a choice between democracy and criminal syndicates.