Looking for the Left Turn
Beyond binaries and generalizations, vilification and glorification, where do we find Latin America’s “left turn” today? ...
Problematic Brothers: Iranian Reaction to Chávez and Ahmadinejad
When Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, call each other brothers, they are bound to be “up ...
Toward a ‘Multipolar World’: Using Oil Diplomacy to Sever Venezuela’s Dependence
In June, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez made his sixth diplomatic trip to Iran. Discussions were held there, as well as ...
Breaking with the Past: A 40th Anniversary Conversation with Margarita López Maya
One of Venezuela’s most prominent left intellectuals, Margarita López Maya is a historian at the Center for Development Studies at ...
The Candidates and Latin America
With an increasing number of presidential primaries occurring around the country in the very early part of 2008, those of ...
Venezuela: Defying Globalization’s Logic
The continued ability of president Hugo Chávez to carry out significant reforms in the face of U.S. hostility and an ...
Chavez and Democracy in Venezuela
The ongoing deliberations of an elected Assembly charged with rewriting Venezuela's Constitution (see "Venezuelans Give Chávez Control of Constituent Assembly," ...
The Two Faces of Hugo Chávez
This piece was published in the May/June 2000 issue of the NACLA Report. At dusk, Carlos Andrés Pérez walked off the plane that ...
