On 5 March 2019, Gary Prevost, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Latin American Studies at College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University in Minnesota, United States, and research associate at the Department of Political and Conflict Studies at Nelson Mandela University, gave a talk about the current situation in Latin America. In particular, the focus of the talk was on the ongoing economic and political crisis in Venezuela and the diplomatic tensions between Venezuela, on one side, and the United States government and its allies, on the other side.