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, National Coordinator, Vente Venezuela; David Smolansky, Visiting Fellow, SNF Agora Institute; and Anne Applebaum, Senior Fellow, SNF Agora Institute

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.

In this free virtual event, Mrs. Machado discussed her party's continuing efforts for a free, fair, and democratic process in Venezuela with SNF Agora fellow David Smolansky, a native Venezuelan who was elected mayor of El Hatillo and later forced into exile for condemning the Maduro administration, and Senior SNF Agora Fellow Anne Applebaum, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and expert on authoritarianism, disinformation, and 21st century propaganda.

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