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The threat of another US invasion of Venezuela is on the agenda under the fascist Trump government and this panel looks at that…
Steve Ellner
Steve Ellner is an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives and Professor Emeritus from Universidad Oriente, Puerto La Cruz 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).
When Donald Trump assumed the presidency in January 2025, the Pink Tide governments in Latin America were losing ground. The approval rating…
Trump’s belligerence toward Venezuela—military actions off its coast, demonization of Venezuelan immigrants and their mass deportation, and the stiffening of sanctions—has deepened…
In recent days, the United States deployed 5,000 Marines to the Caribbean, including three guided-missile destroyers stationed near the Venezuelan coast. At…
One of the most important debates on the left over the past century has centered on how to assess governments committed to…
Criticism of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from a leftist perspective is absolutely necessary and some of it comes from those who, to…
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,…