What does China stand to lose when Chávez dies, and what will Beijing do to preserve its sweetheart oil deals with Venezuela? Join a panel discussion on this timely and significant topic.

Diplomats must move quietly but quickly to coordinate a regional response to Chávez’s death that will press for a genuine democratic transition, and not the succession Chavistas have in mind.

The Venezuelan opposition must begin to prepare for a future without Hugo Chávez. The same is true for the U.S.government, which has been all but ignoring Venezuela for the last five years.

U.S. policymakers must kick-start a Latin America policy to be prepared to clean up the toxic waste left by 14 years of Chávez's anti-American activism.

As Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez battles cancer, it's anyone's guess who his successor will be.

Officials in Chávez's inner circle are wondering how their cash-strapped government can finance yet another "revolutionary" government in Central America. What they fail to realize is that Chávez's backup plan is to sow chaos in Honduras so it is hospitable territory for his partners in the illegal drug trade and a headache for the United States and Mexico.

Bernard Álvarez, the mouthpiece for Hugo Chávez, attacks the new Republican leadership of the House Foreign Affairs Committee while offering no defense of his government's troubling record.

When an imperious bully like Fidel Castro starts to fear, his instinct is to try to sow fear among his enemies. Today, with his student and benefactor, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, dying of cancer, what the Cuban dictator fears most is that his bankrupt regime in Havana is about to lose billions in critical aid and oil.