Should Transition Come Before Recovery in the US plan for Venezuela?

At the World Economic Forum in four leading Venezuela experts from Harvard, Columbia, and Oxford challenged a core assumption shaping U.S. policy: that Venezuela’s path should follow a sequence of stabilization → recovery → transition. They argue that phase 2 and 3 should be reversed.

Washington Needs a ‘Plan Venezuela’ Before It’s Too Late

In a recent analysis, the Atlantic Council argues that Venezuela has entered a critical but time-sensitive phase, where economic opportunity is emerging despite political uncertainty. The report frames the country as a “winnable” strategic challenge but warns that delay risks entrenching opaque economic networks rather than enabling broad recovery. —the window is open, but it will not remain so indefinitely.

Plan País: Venezuela’s Blueprint for Recovery — and Its Unfinished Future

Plan País was designed as a ready-to-implement roadmap for national recovery. It aimed to stabilize an economy that had experienced one of the worst collapses in modern history. But it never had a chance.

The Economists Shaping the Debate on Venezuela’s Future

A network of Venezuelan economists—working both inside the country and across the diaspora—has emerged as a key intellectual force analyzing what went wrong and how recovery can restore the once prosperous country.

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (re)open their doors to Venezuela

Two of the top financial multilateral organizations in the world, the IMF and the World Bank, have re-established relations with the Venezuelan interim government

Career Diplomat Félix Plasencia a central figure in Venezuela’s attempt to re-enter the global economic and political system.

At a moment of rare transition for the country. Plasencia’s role pivotal to normalizing relations with the United States and re-engaging with institutions like the World Bank, he will be a primary architect of that process.

How Venezuela Recovers: Why a Miracle Recovery Is Possible

Why many believe Venezuela is positioned to experience one of the fastest economic recoveries in modern history. Once one of Latin America’s wealthiest countries, the nation experienced a contraction so severe that economists often compare it to the devastation typically associated with war. Output fell by more than two-thirds, hyperinflation destroyed savings, public services deteriorated, and more than seven million Venezuelans emigrated in search of stability