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Tag: Bolivarian Revolution

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Felipe Pérez Martí Responds

April 13, 2021Clif2No CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Chavistas, Donald Trump, US politics, Venezuela

Out of respect for Mr. Marti, I’m posting a link to his post, and to another here, wherein he claims Biden stole the 2020 election and responds to my article at Caracas Chronicles. I make these available to those of you who have the time, interest and inclination to read work that appears to me…

Indicted!

March 27, 2020Clif2No CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, Tareck El-Aissami, Venezuela

At long last Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his mafia have been indicted in the US for cocaine trafficking. Back in November 2015 when the First Lady’s nephews, Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas, were busted for attempting to smuggle 800 kilos (that’s roughly one ton) of cocaine into the US it…

Your Friend Trump

February 18, 2020Clif23 commentsBolivarian Revolution, Donald Trump, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

(This is a revised version of a piece first published at Caracas Chronicles. I think that piece lacked nuance, so I’ve worked it over here)            Imagine my surprise to hear that my Venezuelan friend’s parents “like” Trump. I suppose that “distance makes the heart grow fonder” since for many years it had the same…

Digging Under Rock Bottom

January 24, 2020Clif2No CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

My post was “Editor’s Pick” at Caracas Chronicles this week. Thanks. Go figure. I spend hours on some articles that no one seems to notice, and other posts, like this one, take about an hour out of a morning. I clearly don’t understand the secret to “success.” If I did, I might have the misfortune…

Our Chávez Moment

December 19, 2019Clif2No 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…

Confronting the Chavistas in Berkeley

August 19, 2019Clif2No 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, 2019Clif2No 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, 2019Clif2No 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, 2019Clif2No 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, 2019Clif2No 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,…

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