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Is Venezuela on the Verge of a Another Coup?

"The growing divide between the Venezuelan grassroots and global left is not only discouraging but systematically intentional."

Allende was Wrong: Neoliberalism, Venezuela’s Student Right and the Answer from the Left

"Here we are confronted by the stone-cold realization that there is nothing inherently revolutionary about young people, or students for that matter. Sadly, we are forced to concede that Salvador Allende, who famously said, “to be young and not revolutionary is a biological contradiction,” was wrong."

WATCH: New Paths Require a New Culture on the Left [Spanish]

Speech accepting the 2013 Libertador Prize for Critical Thought, awarded for A World to Build: New Paths toward Twenty-first Century Socialism, Caracas, Venezuela, August 15, 2014

Human Rights Watch Lies about Chavez and Venezuela

"Hugo Chávez was not an authoritarian; he was a revolutionary. He stood not on legal formality, but on revolutionary principle. This is why Human Rights Watch and others must slander him. Hugo Chávez was a living example that it is possible to take on the powerful and rally the hopes of millions across the globe to end oppression and exploitation. While Human Rights Watch will never admit it, Hugo Chávez was the greatest humanitarian of the last decade."

Statement of the Revolutionary Government: Farewell, Commander

"The work of Chávez emerges undefeated before our eyes. The achievements attained by the revolutionary people who saved him from the coup orchestrated on April of 2002, who have followed him without hesitations, are already irreversible."

Venezuela: The Birth of an Alliance for a Coup

"Less than a month before a coup d'état staged against the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas was born a civil association named Alliance for Freedom, aimed at fighting communism "radically" and destabilizing the country. This way was stated in the local newspaper El Universal, on March 17th, 2002, in an article titled "Alliance for Freedom to face the Left."