(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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
Here’s the hour program of a debate between Miguel Tinker Salas and me. I’m not sure how valuable it was for the public, but I hope it at least raised questions for the supporters of the Bolivarian government of Venezuela. https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-2-2016/
Welcome to the blog page of my website! I plan to post here weekly (or more, if I happen to be in active mode). I won’t talk\ about my cat, what I had for breakfast, or any of those other things that pass for daily experience but aren’t worth sharing with anyone but myself and…
My interview begins at 41 minutes into the program. http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20151207-Mon1000.mp3