Attorney Rodrigo Chemim draws parallels between Brazil’s “Lava Jato” corruption scandal and Italy’s Operation Clean Hands, analyzing their implications along both countries’ struggles to fight corruption and their strife to uphold democracy.

Argentina is not a dictatorship. It is not a dictatorship and it is necessary to say so in order to analyze the true state of the country.

In such drastically unequal terrains of power, the relationship between the government and the people and between the people and protest shape the current crisis in Venezuela.

As Venezuela’s economic and political crisis continues to worsen, it seems increasingly unlikely that President Nicolás Maduro and the so-called Bolivarian Revolution will survive the turmoil, and there is still no clear-cut way out for the Venezuelan people.