This interview was conducted as a part of the project “Pax Brasiliana? A Study of Brazil’s Role in Constitutional and Political Crises in Latin America (1990-2015)”, which aims to provide, through analysis and oral history interviews with main players, a deeper understanding of several political and institutional crises occurred in Latin America since 1990, as well as the Brazilian connection and agency regarding each of them. The choice of interviewee here is due to his prominent role in the Organization of American States (OAS) during the attempted coup in Venezuela on April 2002, and his equally prominent role in the Bush administration in the years that followed.
Interview type: Thematic interview
Interviewer: Oliver Stuenkel
Research and script: Oliver Stuenkel, Marina Conter, Marcelo Alvarenga
Transcription: Leandro Silvestrini
Editors: Oliver Stuenkel, Marina Conter, Marcelo Alvarenga
Location: Washington, D.C.
Date of interview: September 26, 2017
Date of final edition: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Duration: 01:11:14
Pages: 16
Keywords: Latin America, Venezuela, United States, Brazil, Venezuelan coup of 2002, Venezuelan political crisis, Organization of American States, U.S. State Department, George W. Bush, Hugo Chávez, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Pedro Carmona.
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