Venezuela and the Crisis of Democracy in the Americas

Join us for a conversation between Latin Americanist scholars Verónica Zubillaga (UIC) and Lina Britto (Northwestern) on the US intervention in Venezuela and the subsequent crisis. In light of hemispheric and national history, profs. Britto and Zubillaga will discuss Venezuela as inflected by the Cold War, authoritarianism, the drug trade, and armed actors. This event is sponsored by Latin American and Carribbean Studies, and co-sponsored by the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. 

Verónica Zubillaga is a Venezuelan Sociologist, current Mellon Visiting Scholar at University of Illinois Chicago. She was a professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. Zubillaga has combined academia with public impact on social and armed violence; She is actively promoting discussions about the search for justice vis-a-vis police violence in Venezuela. She is also currently a Teaching Fellow on the Theory and Practice of Academic Freedom at the Moynihan Center at The City College of New York - City University of New York. 

Lina Britto is a Colombian journalist and historian. She is an associate professor in the Department of History, and affiliated faculty in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program here at Northwestern. She is also a 2025-2026 Buffett Faculty Fellow through the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Her research, teaching, and publications on modern Latin American and Caribbean history focus on illegal economies, state violence, Cold War terror, and US-Latin American relations. 

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