What's next after Venezuela? Iran's economic protests; PizzInt and tradecraft

In the first Global Security Briefing of 2026 Factal editor Jaime Calle Moreno took a deep dive into what happened in Venezuela as well as what editors are watching for next.

Hannah Poppy, Global Head of Risk Intelligence for Emergent Risk International, turned to the economic protest in Iran, including why these are different than the Woman.Life.Freedom protests of 2022.

Kieran O'Leary, Senior Director of Intelligence and Analysis at ERI, then talked about how the tradecraft of intelligence can include Pizza Int and other indicators, but still lack confidence.

Finally, there's a large Q&A as we went long this week.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.