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Danielle Smith interview

May 21, 2019Clifton Ross1 comment

I did an interview with Danielle Smith for a Calgary radio station. My part starts at 1:09:00 (one hour nine minutes exactly into the show). Danielle refers in the beginning to my just-published post at Caracas Chronicles, Reruns in Norway, which you might want to read for background. I spent time talking about the possible…

What I didn’t say on Fox News

May 15, 2019Clifton Ross2 commentsFox News, Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, Socialism, Venezuela, Bolivarian Revolution,

The day after my interview on the far left KGNU show hosted by Joseph Richey, I went onto Fox Business News to do my three or so minutes there. Between the two, I’m not sure which one seemed more amenable to my views, actually. I find myself struggling to articulate my ideas between these two…

An Interview on KGNU, and a Note about Killer Cops in Venezuela

May 14, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsChavistas, Juan Guaidó, Maikel Moreno, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela, Bolivarian Revolution,

Thanks to Joseph Richey I was invited to be on his program Hemispheres on KCNU in Boulder, Colorado. It’s available here. Update: Richey evidently felt the show was a success, though I spent most of the time arguing with his other guest, an old-time leftist. Actually, I was surprised that anyone on the left would…

Venezuela and the Ethics of Reciprocity

May 12, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsCEPR, Chavistas, Jeffrey Sachs, Mark Weisbrot, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela, Bolivarian Revolution,

The new CEPR (Center for Economic and Policy Research) report, written by Mark Weisbrot and Jeffrey Sachs was little more than a desperate attempt to whitewash the crimes of the Venezuelan government and deflect blame for the humanitarian catastrophe. It failed. Even though the report, entitled “Economic Sanctions as Collective Punishment: The Case of Venezuela,”…

My Interview on Bob Zadek Show: Hugo Chávez Failed Messiah

May 6, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsHugo Chavez, Juan Guaidó, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela, Bolivarian Revolution,

Consider this an intermission between parts one and two of “We have Met the Enemy”. In part two I’ll be looking at the multiple failures and bad moves that undermined Operation Libertad April 30th 2019. But that story is unfolding, mostly in Spanish language media, so I’m having to do a bit of translation to…

We have met the Enemy: Part 1

May 5, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsChavistas, Opposition, Venezuela, Bolivarian Revolution,

The recent blitz of lies and manipulation in the Left media during the April 30th uprising in Venezuela was overwhelming, making it nearly impossible to address in detail. From the center all the way over to the far left people decried a “coup” that some extremists went so far as to claim was “plotted so…

Venezuela’s Economic Transition: from Oil to Cocaine

April 25, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsChavistas, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela, Bolivarian Revolution,

With oil production in freefall the failed government (mafia) of Nicolas Maduro has evidently decided to put more energy into the drug trade. No doubt he’s simply following the lead of the Cuban government which, according to a US intelligence report, has found the business to be a lucrative source of funds since the late…

Maduro is Weaker than He Appears

April 16, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsChavistas, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela, Bolivarian Revolution,

This piece was published today at Caracas Chronicles. The U.S. State Department, even under such a venal executive as is currently in power, still manages to put out some very decent briefs, like this paper on Nicolás Maduro, released on April 15th, 2019. It’s an exceptionally detailed list of the crimes of what it calls “Venezuela’s…

Electricity and Water

April 3, 2019Clifton RossNo Comments

Juan Carlos Gabaldón has a great piece posted at Caracas Chronicles on the secondary effects of the electrical blackout. He points out that water systems need electricity to pump into homes so that many parts of Caracas have been out of water for nearly a month now. And the sewer systems require water to drain…

What Solidarity Isn’t

March 28, 2019Clifton RossNo Comments

I’ve felt obliged by the current polarized politics to engage in polemics recently, taking on Noam Chomsky and the solidarity Left in two recent articles. My new tack has caused one acquaintance to criticize me and unsubscribe from my mailing list (yes, you CAN subscribe by sending me an email to clifross [at]gmail.com or scrolling…

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