Looking for the Left Turn
Beyond binaries and generalizations, vilification and glorification, where do we find Latin America’s “left turn” today? ...
Venezuela Before and After the Protests (An Interview with María Pilar García-Guadilla)
María Pilar García-Guadilla discusses the violent protests that shook Venezuela this year, and their impact on the legacy and policy ...
What U.S. Voters Can Learn from Venezuela’s Election
The paradigm that has emerged during Chávez’s presidency is threatening to the dominant political discourse in the United States. So ...
Venezuelan Think Tank Panelist Condemns 100 Percent of Venezuelans
Unlike Mitt Romney’s remarks disparaging the 47%, which were made in private to a coterie of wealthy donors, financial consultant ...
CNN: The Latest Outlet for Roger Noriega’s Paranoid Speculations
Noriega’s buffoonish commentary in CNN would be more amusing if not for his hands-on experience in crafting devastating U.S. policies ...
The Revolutionary Imagination in Cuba and Venezuela
This piece was published in the March/April 2009 issue of the NACLA Report. The historic revolutionary moment of January 1, ...
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 ...
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 ...
