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Allende’s Grandson: “Not in the Name of Allende nor Socialism”
September 23, 2015 ... stripped from the Chilean state during the Pinochet dictatorship, strategic enterprises that were handed over, ... referents for the Chilean Socialist Party in the post-dictatorship period. It’s worth asking the Chilean ... firsthand the horrors and atrocities of the Pinochet dictatorship, if they are in agreement with such a political ... -
Miracles Do Happen: Venezuela Relabeled a Democracy in Wake of Opposition Win
December 7, 2015 Last night, as the results of the December 6th elections were announced, spontaneous parties broke out in the urban centers of Venezuela. Fireworks were launched, horns were honked to no end. Just hours before, the same people were howling via social media to the world about the totalitarian dictatorship imposed by Nicolas Maduro. -
You Don’t Need to be a Semiotics Expert to Decode Leopoldo Lopez’s Latest Post
November 12, 2015 ... To what end?”. “Today, we Venezuelans are sure that a dictatorship governs Venezuela, that is what we are up ... contradictory dual narrative of labelling the country a dictatorship whilst urging the population to vote en masse ... the National Assembly would mean “the weakening of the dictatorship” and the “new National Assembly” would ... -
Must the Venezuelan Right Back Coups?
May 4, 2015 ... were all solidly behind the coup which briefly installed a dictatorship. Reuters recently did an important expose on ... said that “even if you characterize Venezuela as a dictatorship, dictatorships don’t generally survive this ... -
Democracy Behind Bars in Venezuela? A Reply to the UK Guardian
March 31, 2015 ... (“The Way Out”), described the government as a “dictatorship” and called on Venezuelans to “rise up” ... 1958 (when a popular uprising overthrew the Perez Jimenez dictatorship). The message was clear: Venezuela was a dictatorship, the government had to be overthrown by force. ... -
Venezuela: Answer Coups and Economic Sabotage with a Revolutionary Offensive
February 28, 2015 ... either through a coup, establishing a military police dictatorship as in Chile, or through sabotage of the economy ... followed by the savage massacre of all dissent against the dictatorship and set up the military police dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. That experience is very ... -
Obama Could Face Another Disastrous Summit Due to Sanctions Against Venezuela
April 10, 2015 This week's Summit of the Americas looks set to be yet another disaster for Obama, whose decision to impose an Executive Order on Venezuela has further isolated Washington ahead of the regional event. -
Venezuela: A Threat to US National Security?
March 16, 2015 The Hands Off Venezuela Campaign highlights the double standards implicit in the recent U.S. decision to brand Venezuela "an extraodinary threat" in light of recent U.S.-backed coup efforts against progressive regional governments as well as support for repressive regimes. The only threat that Venezuela poses, the authors continue, is the "threat of being a good example", namely the the immense social gains achieved by the Bolivarian Revolution being viewed as a model by other countries in the region and throughout the world. -
‘Democracy, as Usual,’ in Venezuela
December 9, 2015 ... Maduro had turned democratic Venezuela into a communist dictatorship. American media, politicians, and the State ... -
Hillary Clinton and a Venezuelan Murder Mystery: Who Killed Luis Manuel Díaz?
December 5, 2015 ... targets a country for regime change, whether it is a dictatorship like Iraq or a democracy like Honduras or ... -
Revolution, Counter Revolution, and the Economic War in Venezuela: Part I
January 27, 2015 ... January, marking the anniversary of the overthrow of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez on January 23, 1958. ... because it marks a break in Venezuelan history, when a dictatorship gave way to a power sharing arrangement between ... a conciliator without intentions of installing a military dictatorship.” Among the outcomes of such a coup is that ... -
Venezuela's Oldest Human Rights Organization: "Here There is a State That Respects Human Rights"
June 25, 2015 ... with mostly secular Chilean exiles fleeing the [Pinochet] dictatorship.The goal was first to create a space [for the ... -
Ernesto Samper: "UNASUR Will Keep Looking for Peaceful Solutions in Venezuela"
February 25, 2015 ... say that the Maduro government is a regime on its way to dictatorship. What is your opinion? That many of those ... -
Latin America Unites Against U.S. Attack on Venezuelan Democracy
February 11, 2015 By insisting on U.S. “exceptionalism” in the 2015 National Security Strategy, it appears that the U.S. will tolerate only one economic and political model in its “backyard,” the one that conforms to the global neoliberal order, even as that order is being called into question by those who have the most to lose from its perpetuation. -
Obama's Legacy Set to Fail in Latin America
April 6, 2015 Obama opened the door to Cuba, admitting Washington’s half century of failed foreign policy towards the island, but then shut it on Venezuela implementing policies that are set to end in a similar way.