Talk:Vanessa Neumann

Accuracy of referring to Juan Guaido as Interim President
Referring to Guaido as the "interim president" violates NPOV. While Guaido is recognized by some foreign countries, he was not elected president and is not recognized as such within Venezuela. He is not serving any role comparable to that of president. Additionally, Maduro was elected in an election which international observers characterized as completely fair and extremely secure against vote tampering of any sort:

"We were unanimous in concluding that the elections were conducted fairly, that the election conditions were not biased, that genuine irregularities were exceptionally few and of a very minor nature." https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/international-observers-to-venezuelas-election-pen-letter-to-the-eu

67.160.186.173 (talk) 21:22, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

The country in which Vanessa Neumann represents the Interim Government, "unequivocally" recognises Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's Interim President. That is the 2 July 2020 by Justice Nigel Teare in the UK High Court.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelan-president-maduros-claim-for-gold-held-in-u-k-is-rejected-11593683902

https://www.ft.com/content/55aa103a-c142-40a0-be7c-1d41ec002498

It is therefore a matter of law that Vanessa Neumann serves the Interim President of Venezuela. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoussieDalgarno (talk • contribs) 01:31, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Articles by Neumann
“The Venezuelan Regime is Coming Apart,” The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, A15.

“How Goldman Sachs is Ruining My Venezuela,” The Daily Beast, 31 May 2017.

“Russia Gave to Citgo, then Citgo Gave to Trump,” The Daily Beast, 27 April 2017.

“The FARC-Colombian Peace Deal: No Better Option,” The Foreign Policy Research Institute, September 2016

“The Real Terrorist Threat to the Rio Olympics,” The Foreign Policy Research Institute, August 2016

“The Significance of the Venezuelan National Assembly Elections,” The Foreign Policy Research Institute, December 2015

“Never Mind the Metrics: Disrupting Human Trafficking by Alternate Means,” Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2015, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs

“Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: Curbing the illicit tobacco trade,” The Weekly Standard, 27 February 2015.

Case Studies in Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare — Colombia (1964-2009), edited by Summer Newton. Assessing Revolutionary and Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) series, published by the United States Army Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) National Security Analysis Department, July 2013. Dr Neumann was the academic reviewer.

“The Global Convergence of the Crime-Terror Threat” in Orbis, Volume 57, Number 2, Spring 2013

“Chávez Lives On?” in The Weekly Standard, 7 March 2013.

“Of Chinese Snakeheads and Mexican Coyotes: The Globalization of Crime-Terror Pipelines,” The Foreign Policy Research Institute, August 2012

“Radicalization of Diaspora Networks,” Stratagem (newsletter for the Asymmetric Operations Warfare Group), Volume 7, Issue 1, June 2012

“Venezuela Heads Deeper into Militant Narcoterrorism,” The Foreign Policy Research Institute, January 2012

“The New Nexus of Narcoterrorism: Hezbollah and Venezuela,” The Foreign Policy Research Institute, December 2011

“Kidnappings in Venezuela,” The Foreign Policy Research Institute, November 2011

"A Mestatisizing Problem: if Hugo Chávez goes, what comes after?" The Weekly Standard, December 23, 2012.

“Hugo Chávez’s Long Shadow: The Venezuelan dictator’s legacy of violence will outlast him,” The Weekly Standard, October 17, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 05

“The Middle Eastern-Latin American Terrorist Connection,” The Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 2011

“Lessons from Peru’s Presidential Elections: Arrested Development,” The Weekly Standard, April 8, 2011

“Qaddafi’s Pal in Caracas,” The Weekly Standard, March 14, 2010

“Rousseff Wins Election in Brazil,” The Weekly Standard, November 4, 2010

“The Death of Argentine President Néstor Kirchner and a Political Dynasty,” The Weekly Standard, November 1, 2010

“Hugo Chávez’s Military Buildup and Iranian Ties,” The Weekly Standard, October 19, 2010

“Hugo Chávez and the Venezuelan Election,” The Weekly Standard, October 14, 2010

“The Rise of Latin America,” Diplomat, September 2010

“A Fortune Underfoot,” The Weekly Standard, August 23, 2010, Vo. 15, No. 46

“Colombia’s Elections,” Diplomat, May 2010

“A Peace Grows in Colombia,” The Weekly Standard, March 15, 2010, Vo. 15, No. 25

“Not Noble, Not Savage,” Varsity, Cambridge University, 23 October 2009, p. 9

“Chávez’s Thugs,” Counterpoint, Standpoint, September 2009

“Colombia: A Nation Reborn,” Dispatches, Standpoint, June 2009

“The Environment as the Centrepiece of Policymaking,” Diplomat, March 2009

“’Rebel angel’ Hugo Chávez bedevils Venezuela,” The Sunday Times, 22 February 2009

“No, Chávez is not the answer to Venezuela’s poverty and inequality,” The Guardian, 4 February 2009

“Chávez’s secret fan club,” Dispatches, Standpoint, January 2009

“Tide is turning against the red ‘dictator’ of Venezuela,” The Daily Telegraph, 19 November 2008

“Indigenous Politics,” Diplomat, October 2008

“Billionaires’ Club: How green is your greenback in the new age of eco-philanthropy?” Diplomat, September 2008

“Colombia’s Strategies for Peace and Justice” for Flashpoints, a publication of The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2007.

“With or Without Government: Political Legitimacy, Procedural Justice and the Responsibility to Protect,” Philosophical Writings, No. 34, Spring 2007.

“Political Bullshit and the Stoic Story of Self” in Bullshit and Philosophy, edited by Gary Hardcastle and George Reid, Open Court Press, October 2006. Also featured in the book is a chapter by G.A. Cohen, Chiechele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldbruce (talk • contribs) 17:42, 25 November 2017 (UTC)

"native Venezuelan" and "native Venezuela" not supported by citation offered in Professional Career section
In the section entitled Professional Career this sentence appears:

Neumann is a native Venezuelan commentator on politics and a vocal critic of the Chávez and Maduro regimes, and she cites organized crime conducted by them as a cause of oppression in her native Venezuela.[17]

Citation 17 is to http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/politica/neumann-venezuela-esta-regida-por-cartel-drogas-por-gobierno_198993. This is an article which basically outlines her position (without endorsing it), and could fairly support a sentence like She is a vocal critic of he Chávez and Maduro regimes, and she cites organized crime conducted by them as a cause of oppression in Venezuela

The El Nacional article has nothing whatsoever to say about about how Venezuelan Neumann is, native or otherwise.

In fact, the Wikipedia article just a few lines above makes it clear that her ties to the country are not very deep: neither her parents nor other ancestors were from South America, she went to a German language school, then apparently spent more than a decade getting an education in New York. The Wikipedia article makes her seem palpably foreign.

So calling her a native Venezuelan concerned about her native Venezuela is incongruous and unsupported, and of course using the word 'native' twice in one short sentence just heightens the effect.

So my suggestion is to cut both uses of 'native' from the sentence. Son of eugene (talk) 22:38, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Go for the trim. I do not know who is the main creator of this article but the article has to be subject to more inspection. --MaoGo (talk) 00:36, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

In ordinary parlance, "native" refers to a person's place of birth. The article makes clear that Dr. Neumann was born in Caracas; her early education was all in Caracas; she worked in Caracas as an adult; her family ancestors are celebrated as being integral to Venezuelan cultural life: https://elestimulo.com/la-historia-del-instituto-neumann-una-deuda-pendiente/ ---  — Preceding unsigned comment added by RoussieDalgarno (talk • contribs) 01:38, 12 July 2020 (UTC)