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Our Chávez Moment

December 19, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Donald Trump, Hugo Chavez, impeachment, Populism, US politics, Venezuela

           A Venezuelan friend recently told me that he thought Trump will win re-election. “He sounds every day more like Chávez,” he wrote me. I’ve been thinking the same things, myself, these days as I’ve tuned in and out of the impeachment hearings. And I also recall another Venezuelan telling me once, some fifteen or…

On Russian Assets and American Gusanos

October 20, 2019Clifton RossNo Comments

Hillary Clinton has gotten all sorts of flak for insinuating that Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein are or were “Russian assets.” As usual, the discussions unleashed around these charges are polarized and lack any nuance—much less, evidence. Certainly the circumstantial evidence is there, for instance the “allegations that Russian news and propaganda sites often report…

Confronting the Chavistas in Berkeley

August 19, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, US Solidarity movement, Venezuela

(This article was first posted at Caracas Chronicles) A month or so ago, my wife came home growling about a pro-chavista program she’d heard on KPFA radio. Of course, I thought, what’s new? Originally founded by Lewis Hill in 1957 as a “free speech” station that crossed boundaries and included broad swathes of countercultural and…

Solidarity with the Venezuelan People, part two

August 14, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, US Solidarity movement, Venezuela

(This is a second flyer I wrote for the Dan Kovalik event. It’s probably more useful in that it has bullet points and works for concision, but that would be a judgment others would have to make. I tried to avoid redundancies, but there may be some. Here it is, in any case.) Many of…

Solidarity with the Venezuelan People = Opposition to the Bolivarian Government

August 14, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Nicolas Maduro, US Solidarity movement, Venezuela

I wrote this piece as a flyer to hand out at the Dan Kovalik talk in Berkeley. This version contains all the links. Venezuela is suffering today under a set of failed policies and unkept promises made by the late President Hugo Chávez and maintained by the “chavista” loyalists under Nicolás Maduro. Chávez promised to…

How Not to See Reality

July 28, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Socialism, Venezuela

My piece on the art of avoiding reality, particularly Venezuelan reality, is up at Caracas Chronicles. It’s short, not-so-sweet, and to the point. I’m learning to economize on words these days… Update: It came out in Spanish at Tal Cual digital here, thanks to the work of Guillermo Useche. How is it that the socialist…

The Bachelet Report and the Real Enemies of Venezuela

July 16, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Nicolas Maduro

You can read the “Clifnotes” version of the Human Rights Report on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela here. I’ve highlighted it and added colored type so you can skim through the document and still be home for dinner tonight. Those who lived through the terrible years of the 1980s when death squads terrorized Central America,…

What’s Left? What’s Right?

July 4, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsAntifa, Bolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Socialism, Venezuela

I’m writing these reflections after publishing “Fascism: The Left Project that Keeps Giving at Caracas Chronicles. This is a longer post below, wherein I develop some ideas that I only touched on in the CCs piece. Someone asked me recently why I’m always attacking or criticizing leftists. They mentioned that there was plenty on the…

Meanderings through the American Political Landscape

June 18, 2019Clifton RossNo Comments

Since I wrote my piece on the situation of Maduro’s “hostages” for Caracas Chronicles (The Human Bargaining Chips of the Maduro Regime) National Assembly Deputy Gilber Caro has been released, likely in anticipation of the visit by Michelle Bachelet. But there are still hundreds being held in Venezuela’s overcrowded prisons (that being said, our own…

The Sanctions? Meh. But the workers on hunger strike…

June 11, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

In May I published my critique at Caracas Chronicles of the Weisbrot-Sachs’ paper on the US sanctions on Venezuela. I titled it, “Pandering to the Imperial Left.” Now a much better critique (I’m not ashamed to say) has come out with the Brookings Institute, a collaboration between four real economists. It’s available for downloading at…

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