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Criticism of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from a leftist perspective is absolutely necessary and some of it comes from those who, to…
Steve Ellner
Steve Ellner is an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives and a retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela. His latest books include his edited Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism and Resistance in Broad Perspective (2021) and his co-edited Latin American Social Movements and Progressive Governments: Creative Tensions Between Resistance and Convergence (2022).
Gabriel Hetland’s article “Capitalism and Authoritarianism in Maduro’s Venezuela,” published in New Labor Forum and then reposted in Links and other webpages,…
A slightly abridged version of this article was published in Jacobin. Indignation and resistance to Donald Trump’s bullying, deportations, and economic reprisals…
During his first term, President Donald Trump exerted a “maximum pressure” campaign against perceived U.S. adversaries in Latin America and elsewhere. Among…
For every decision Venezuela’s opposition has made in recent months, the far-rightist María Corina Machado has had the last word. Center-right leaders,…
Historian and political analyst Steve Ellner lays down the political stakes and US meddling ahead of Venezuela’s electoral race. It is no…
Two conflicting leftist positions on Latin America’s wave of progressive governments known as the Pink Tide have become increasingly well-defined over the…
President Joe Biden kept a promise to Lula da Silva by congratulating him for “free, fair and credible” elections minutes after Sunday’s…
The TV broadcasting of the select congressional committee hearings on the January 6 riot just confirms what we already knew, though with…
Washington’s New Strategy but Same Old Assumptions