What worries the United States most about Lula
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks at the national congress of the PT party in 2017. Photo by Lula Marques/Agência PT. President Joe Biden kept a promise to Luiz Inácio…
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Why isn’t Trump about to be jailed for his criminal behaviour?
Photo by Marco Verch/Flickr The television broadcasting of the select congressional committee hearings on the January 6 Capitol riot confirms what we already knew, though with a lot of gory…
The impasse of the Latin American left
The Impasse of the Latin American Left Franck Gaudichaud, Jeffery R. Webber, and Massimo Modonesi Duke University Press, 2022 Can the firebrand Hugo Chávez, with his embrace of ”21st century…
Biden vacillates as Venezuela’s Maduro gains ground
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s repeated calls for dialogue with the United States in order to normalize relations seem to be paying off. His openness to rapprochement contrasts with the Biden…
How the issue of Ukraine is playing out on the left
Mural in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Photo by spoilt.exile/Flickr. A significant issue that has generated much heated discussion on the left is not over whether Russia’s illegal invasion of…
US policy toward Venezuela was never about promoting democracy
President Donald Trump with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó at the White House. Photo by Evan Vucci. Last year, then Special Representative Elliott Abrams declared that the Trump Administration was…
Pedro Castillo’s victory raises hopes beyond Peru
There is good reason to believe that Pedro Castillo will not betray the Peruvians of humble origin who elected him, writes Steve Ellner. Photo from Twitter. Peru’s long-standing polarity between…
US sanctions on Venezuela are deadly—and facing mass resistance
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Photo from Flickr. Venezuelan centrist Claudio Fermín was a protégé of neoliberal president Carlos Andrés Pérez in the early 1990s—and, at first, a firm opponent of…
David Harvey’s new thesis is that ‘capitalism is too big to fail’. Is it?
Up until now, famed geographer David Harvey has been considered a leading Marxist, even if some on the left have criticized several of his theories as “reformist.” In my opinion,…
How Much of Venezuela’s Crisis is Really Maduro’s Fault?
Photo by Presidencia El Salvador The recognition by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Joe Biden of Juan Guaidó as Venezuelan president is the latest demonstration of…
Beyond the Boliburguesía Thesis
Photo by Joka Madruga “Oil didn’t wreck Venezuela’s economy, socialism did.” That’s what Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, of the Washington-based conservative think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center, wrote ea...
After Chávez: The Maduro Government And The ‘Economic War’ in Venezuela
Photo by Valter Campanato Nearly two years after the death of Hugo Chávez, the key question that many on the left are debating, in Venezuela and elsewhere, is whether his…
Terrorism in Venezuela and its accomplices
Subscribe to our free e-newsletter HERE. This piece was originally published in The Bullett. The private media and important actors both at home and abroad including Washington have downplayed, and…