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The vagueness of their statements about regime change purposefully leaves open the possibility of a violent path to power
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).
The Maduro Government And The ‘Economic War’ in Venezuela
The difference between the violent and non-violent right is smaller than you may think
The private media and important actors both at home and abroad including Washington have downplayed, and in some cases completely ignored, the terrorist actions perpetrated against the Venezuelan government
The violent anti-government protests that shook Venezuela in February have once again thrust the issue of the pace of change into the broader debate over socialist transformat
“Peaceful protests” is a loaded term that serves to plant doubts about the intentions of the Chavista government
The strategy and tactics of the Venezuelan opposition is a replay of events that took place leading up to the coup against Hugo Chávez in 2002
The analysis of U.S. policy toward the Ukraine and Syria is even more applicable in the case of Venezuela
The slant of the Venezuelan private media and the international media on what is happening in Venezuela is clear: The government is responsible for the violence
The time-worn tactic of the dominant class that controls the spread of information is to provoke violence and then blame it on the enemy