Tony Frangie Mawad

Caracas-Based Journalist & Political Scientist

Freelance research consultant

Senior fellow at Institute 2100

Instagram: @TonyFrangieM

Twitter: @TonyFrangieM

tonyfrangiem@gmail.com

+1 (786) 6832292

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Select Articles

• The Economist

  • Nicolás Maduro lets miners trash Venezuela’s forests (published on the March 5th 2022 print issue of The Economist)

• Americas Quarterly

  • In Venezuela, Some Chavistas Are Quietly Drifting Toward the Opposition

  • Maduro’s New Crackdown on Venezuela’s Civil Society

  • Venezuela’s Fickle Economic Recovery Is Falling Apart

• Foreign Policy

  • Venezuela’s Strongman Could Actually Lose

  • Venezuela’s Modest Economic Liberalization Has Created a ‘Hellscape of Inequality’

  • NGOs, Chavismo’s Latest Target

• Bloomberg

  • Venezuela’s Long Decline Threatens the Cultural Jewels of Caracas (published on the September 6th 2021 print issue of Businessweek)

  • Putting the World’s Slums on the Map

  • Venezuela's Electrical Blackouts Widen Gap Between Rural and Urban Areas

• Politico

  • Nicolás Maduro Tries a New PR Campaign: Going Woke (Fragment republished on the Wall Street Journal print edition)

  • A Flood of Venezuelan Migrants Is Angering Other Venezuelans

• Caracas Chronicles

  • Interview of Edmundo González Urrutia

  • Watching González Urrutia's First Rally from the Top of a Tree

  • A Sidelined Venezuelan Opposition is Deeply Divided Over U.S. Sanctions

  • What Does The Evidence Actually Say About Sanctions on Venezuela?

  • Mapping the Venezuelan Opposition’s Rallies

I’ve published more stories in those outlets as well as in The New Humanitarian, Mongabay and Coda.

Consultancy and Analysis

I have conducted research consultancy and political analysis focused on Latin America and Venezuela, covering areas such as development, domestic politics, and economics. My contractees include Ecoanalítica, CAF - Development Bank of Latin America, the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Transparency International, Spain’s Complutense University, and others.

I have also provided advisory services and participated in panels for organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, BBVA, Quickpress, Fundación Gabo, the British-Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce, and various embassies in Venezuela.

Newsletter and Podcast

I also run my own podcast and bilingual newsletter called Venezuela Weekly. In the podcast, I covered the elections and interviewed prominent national figures, including Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado. In the newsletter, I provide weekly coverage of Venezuela’s political, social, and economic situation.

My first solo book, published under my name, is due for the second semester of 2025. This non-fiction book explores the arc from Venezuela's gradual economic liberalization in late 2019 to the electoral uprising of 2024–2025.