Venezuela’s best ‘anti-coup’ medicine: dialogue

A former professor of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has just published a report on Venezuela’s political crisis, and his conclusions are disquieting — he says the most likely scenario in that country is a military coup.

Andrés Serbin, an Argentine political scientist who lived for many years in Venezuela and was his political science professor at Venezuela’s Simon Bolivar University in the early 1990s, says in his paper that Venezuela’s political crisis — which has already left 39 dead and hundreds of wounded – is likely to worsen.

Growing food shortages, the world’s highest inflation levels, record homicide rates, and