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A conversation about the Trump administration’s military operation in Venezuela and what it means for Venezuela, Latin America and the world.

Verónica Zubillaga is a Venezuelan sociologist. Since 2007 she has been a professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. In 2016, with her colleagues in Caracas, she founded the Red de Activismo e Investigación por la Convivencia, an association devoted to research on urban violence and activism on human rights and public policy for peaceful coexistence. Her most recent book is The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela (2022). She has been a visiting professor and scholar at Brown, Harvard, Notre Dame, the Collegium de Lyon, and Columbia. She is currently a Mellon Visiting Scholar in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UIC, where she is researching armed territorial orders and criminal governance in Latin America.

Lina Britto is a Colombian journalist and historian. She is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University, where she teaches on the history of state violence, drug trafficking, Cold War terror and US-Latin American relations. She is the author of Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise (2020) and one of the authors of the second report of Colombia’s Historical Commission of the Armed Conflict and Its Victims, which was published by the Office for the High Commissioner for Peace in 2024. Her next book is about the American hippies who, in the 1970s and 1980s, smuggled marijuana to the U.S. connecting Colombia, Jamaica and Florida in a single transnational history.

Danny Postel (moderator) is Politics Editor of New Lines Magazine.

This event is part of the new series Juxtapositions: Conversations on Art, Ideas and Global Cross-Currents, a co-production of New Lines Magazine and Nighthawk. It’s free of charge and open to the public, but register to secure a spot — seating is limited.

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