Daniel Margrain — Venezuela: History repeating itself?

The corporate media is deliberately giving readers the false impression that Venezuela is ‘flirting with dictatorship’. In reality, these claims couldn’t be further from the truth. But majority support for a Constituents Assembly, and the fact that the Governing United Socialist Party won 17 out of 23 governor races is irrelevant to Washington’s nefarious objectives. US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson is threatening to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is he doesn’t leave of his own accord.” The country is being “softened up” through the press as a precursor to its subsequent destruction.…

The politics of Chavez were founded on two very simple tenets:

1) People ought not to be starving in dreadful slums in the world’s most oil rich state.

2) The CIA ought not to control Venezuela....

Renegade Inc.
Venezuela: History repeating itself?
Daniel Margrain

Francois Houtart — The citizen revolutions in Latin America

The countries of the ‘citizen revolution’ in Latin America are post-neoliberal, but not post-capitalist.

Open Democracy
The citizen revolutions in Latin America

Francois Houtart | Emeritus profesor at the Université Catholique de Louvain and full profesor at the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales del Ecuador (Quito)

Lee Brown — Hugo Chavez Helped Overturn Neoliberalism in Latin America

Puncturing the myths about neoliberalism (Pinochet) and Bolivarianism (Chavez).

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Hugo Chavez Helped Overturn Neoliberalism in Latin America

Lee Brown