How Canada’s Truckers Protest Reawakened my Venezuelan Trauma
The demonstrators against vaccine mandates deployed the same hostility against the press, officials and citizens I saw from violent chavista groups
Tag: populism
From Chavismo to Trumpism: the Felipe Pérez Martí Case
The way a former Chávez minister came to be a critic of Maduro and a Trump supporter shows how a certain way of thinking makes you prone to conspiracy theories and political cults
Beware Your Friend Trump
There are some warnings I never thought I’d have for Venezuelans, of all people. Yet here we are, talking about the dangers of seeing right-wing populists as “saviors” from left-wing populism.
It's the Populism, Stupid!
It's the debate that won't go away: what is it about chavismo that so thoroughly wrecked Venezuela? Is it Marxism? Crime? Incompetence? It's none of those. It's the populism
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