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Tag: Hugo Chavez

Home Tag: Hugo Chavez

The Simplisms of the International Left

October 22, 2020Clifton Ross1 commentBolivarian, Hugo Chavez, Imperialism, Venezuela, Bolivarian Revolution,

This essay (vea al español original después de la traducción) came to my attention well over a year ago and I found it so powerful that I decided to translate it. Luz Varela teaches history at the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela. Like so many thoughtful academics, she’s worked to refute the simplistic…

Indicted!

March 27, 2020Clifton RossNo 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…

Digging Under Rock Bottom

January 24, 2020Clifton RossNo 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, 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…

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…

My Interview on Bob Zadek Show: Hugo Chávez Failed Messiah

May 6, 2019Clifton RossNo CommentsBolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez, Juan Guaidó, Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela

Consider this an intermission between parts one and two of “We have Met the Enemy”. In part two I’ll be looking at the multiple failures and bad moves that undermined Operation Libertad April 30th 2019. But that story is unfolding, mostly in Spanish language media, so I’m having to do a bit of translation to…

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