The Venezuelan opposition and its backers in Washington may have underestimated the Chavista grassroots
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The only possible saviors of the Bolivarian process are those who have saved it on every other occasionāand who today coalesce around the horizon of the commune
No matter how you cut it, NicolĆ”s Maduroās first year in office was no walk in the park
Police violence here is not an abstract or universal phenomenon. It is a phenomenon that has focused on certain peoples and certain āproblemā populations
Before expressing our solidarity, we should be clear who it is we are supporting
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There is a powerfully dangerous and condescending myth circulating about so-called ‘civil society’ in Venezuela, which goes something like this: as Daniel…
Hugo Chávez is no more, and yet the symbolic importance of the Venezuelan President that exceeded his physical persona in life, providing…
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