Javier Corrales

Corrales is a professor of political science at Amherst College and a member of the editorial board of Americas Quarterly. He’s the author of Autocracy Rising (Brookings 2023) and co-author of Dragon in the Tropics: Venezuela and the Legacy of Hugo Chávez (2015).

• Why the U.S. Should Not Take Back the Panama Canal
• Why Cuba Is in the Dark
• La Oposición Venezolana Debería Inspirarse en un Inusitado Personaje
• Venezuela’s Opposition Should Draw Inspiration From an Unlikely Figure
• Could Democracy Backslide in Colombia?
• Why Cuba’s Díaz-Canel Is Still in Trouble
• Cuba’s Racial Reckoning, and What It Means for Biden
• Latin America Risks Becoming the Land of Militarized Democracies
• Responses to the Venezuelan Migration Crisis: A Scorecard
• “Prexit”: Latin America’s Real 2018 Dilemma
• All Venezuelans Are Under House Arrest. Now They Should Be Freed, Too.
• Can’t We Give Venezuela’s Opposition a Little Credit?
• For Latin Americans, Trump’s Outsider Win Is a Familiar Story – With a Twist
• Venezuela’s Odd Transition to Dictatorship
• Venezuela: Is This the Final Straw?
• After Brazil, Will Venezuela Be Next to Remove Its President?
• Venezuela’s Media Isn’t Smearing the Opposition; It’s Making Them Invisible
• The Trump-ification of Venezuela
• Hangar Pains: The Argentina-Chile Airport Controversy