
Maduro’s Brown New Deal for Venezuela
Nicolás Maduro's reforms will deepen Venezuela's oil dependency, slow regional efforts to decarbonize, and shift oil profits to transnational oil ...

In Cuba, Reform or Transition?
The Cuban government's acceptance of small enterprises is helping many on the island increase their incomes, but it's also exacerbating ...

Review: Steve Ellner’s Latin America’s Radical Left
With a narrow focus on the left's recent experiences, these collected essays successfully contextualize the issues confronting the movements, parties, ...

Chávez and the Intellectuals
This piece appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of the NACLA Report. In June 2009 several leftist scholars affiliated with ...

Book Review Essay: The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela.
A scant quarter century ago, events seemed to portend a global shift in power and wealth toward the Third World ...

An Agenda for a New Oil Policy
With the collapse of oil prices between 1981 and 1983, Venezuela's revenue crisis could not be resolved by demanding a ...