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A converging theatre: Iran, Venezuela and the quiet realignment of power

Articles / defence, Due Diligence, Iran, risks, United States of America, Venezuela / 04/2026

What has unfolded in Iran over the past five weeks cannot be understood in isolation. The mass protests, economic collapse and subsequent military escalation form part of a broader pattern that echoes earlier events in Venezuela. Both nations, deeply embedded in global energy markets and historically resistant to US influence, have faced internal destabilisation amid [...]

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US attempts to weaken BRICS

Articles / Argentina, BRICS, China, Due Diligence, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, trading bloc, UAE, USA, Venezuela / 10/2023

With talk that Venezuela and Mexico are formally applying for membership of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), it is a good time to assess just what the Biden administration is trying to do to weaken and break up the trading bloc. The US succeeded in regaining control over the Philippines as part

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Russia’s second front

Articles / Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Due Diligence, Mexico, oil and gas, Putin, Russia, Venezuela / 01/2023

Vladimir Putin’s efforts to change the world’s balance of power requires not just a strong military, but serious influence over the world’s oil & gas markets, and to be really effective, he needs more than just Saudi Arabia and Iran on side – he needs control directly or indirectly of South America’s oil production as

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KCS Country Risk Brief: Venezuela

Archives, Risk Papers / Venezuela / 03/2023

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KCS Country Risk & Threat Advisory: Latin America

Archives, Risk Papers / Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela / 06/2022

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Stranger Than Fiction

Articles / Netflix, Trump, Venezuela / 04/2020

For those of us in lockdown and looking to binge on the latest boxsets, Netflix’s ‘Narcos’ is likely to be a popular choice. Detailing as it does the rise and fall of the drug lord Escobar and his cartel, such fare has been fertile ground for dramatisations, both real and imagined. But, as always, one

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Venezuela: a failed state

Articles / Venezuela / 06/2018

‘Unexpectedly’ Nicolas Maduro won another six-year term as President of Venezuela in the recent elections. The country has now reached its lowest point since Chavez’s departure. The 55-year-old leftist will have a lot to work on, even though it was his policy of extensive corruption and remissness of economic stability that led his ship to

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A converging theatre: Iran, Venezuela and the quiet realignment of power

US attempts to weaken BRICS

Russia’s second front

KCS Country Risk Brief: Venezuela

KCS Country Risk & Threat Advisory: Latin America

Stranger Than Fiction

Venezuela: a failed state

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