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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…

Danielle Smith interview

May 21, 2019Clifton RossNo Comments

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 RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Fox News, Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, Socialism, Venezuela

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 CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Juan Guaidó, Maikel Moreno, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

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 CommentsBolivarian Revolution, CEPR, Chavistas, Jeffrey Sachs, Mark Weisbrot, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

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,”…

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