Happy May Day… 2017
This is May Day in Venezuela. “Happy” May Day. It’s time to celebrate the Venezuelan people who will no longer tolerate a dictator. They have my support… Witness how they “welcome” the dictator’s military:
Chavista Grassroots Speak Out — Against Chavismo
(Note: I’ve been away from my blog for a while for personal and creative reasons. In that time the Bolivarians have taken further steps toward an outright judicial dictatorship. They were forced to take one step back when the world reacted to the TSJ (Venezuelan Supreme Court) Ruling 156 in which the court “assumed functions” of…
Margarita López Maya, Caracas Chronicles and Vacation
How’s that for a jumbled headline of non sequiturs? Or, at least apparent non sequiturs. Let me explain myself. First of all, Margarita López Maya is coming to the San Francisco Bay Area in early March to present at Stanford and also at the World Affairs Council in Santa Rosa. AND ALSO at the Niebyl-Proctor…
Bolívar City and the Ruin of Venezuela
(Note: A version of this piece was posted at www.libcom.org) The first victims of a riot are the rioters. That’s what the people of Bolivar City in Venezuela are learning right after the riots that took out 90% of its grocery stores in a matter of hours the weekend of December 16-18. Since 80% of…
Interview with Allan Campbell at KOOP Radio, Austin Texas
https://archive.org/details/PeopleUnited20161209 Allan Campbell put a lot of work into editing this interview and it flows beautifully. The interview was recorded September 29,2016 in the KOOP studio, Austin, Texas.
What they aren’t saying about Bolivarian Venezuela
And I mean no one is saying it, at least not in English in the United States. It’s the most obvious fact about the Chavistas, Hugo Chávez, the Bolivarian project, and it may also be the most important thing to say about the current crisis in Venezuela. Javier Corrales hasn’t mentioned it,…
Bolivarian Dictatorship
Photo Gustavo Esteve The “Bolivarian Revolution” declared by the late Hugo Chávez a process to bring about “participatory protagonistic democracy” completed itself and came to an end yesterday, October 20, 2016 as it moved definitively into a dictatorship. As Frank Muci put it over at Caracas Chronicles, “the charade is over.” Now the only democratic process…
The Coming Tsunami in Venezuela (Updated)
As I write, the “Taking of Caracas” is just hours away. The united opposition to the Bolivarian government has called on the people of Venezuela to gather in Caracas for what it hopes will be an ongoing protest. It’s a rather extreme measure, forced on the Venezuelan people due to the intransigence of the Bolivarian…
Interview (Spanish): Venezuela’s Savage Socialism
Pulso Latinoamericano | Clifton Ross: Sentí mucha culpa por haber apoyado el proyecto de Chávez Por Rafael Uzcátegui Fecha: 23/08/2016 FOTO: Scott Braley Rafael Uzcátegui @fanzinero (Rafael Uzcátegui is a writer, coordinator of the renowned Venezuelan human rights organization, PROVEA, and part of the editorial collective for the anarchist magazine, El Libertario. We did this…
Venezuela: From Milk and Honey to (Maybe) Bread and Water
(Note: On July 28th, 2016 I submitted this to the last remaining left website where I’d heretofore been able to publish and now, two weeks later, have yet to hear back from them. When I submitted articles praising Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution, they were published the next day. I understand it’s hard for people to hear…