How Washington’s Devastating “Economic Blockade” of Venezuela Helped Pave the Way for Coup Attempt
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Alejandro Velasco
associate professor at New York University, where he is a historian of modern Latin America. He is the executive editor for NACLA Report on the Americas and the author of the book Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela. Velasco was born and raised in Venezuela.
Steve Ellner
former professor at the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, where he taught from 1977 until he retired in 2002. He’s currently the associate managing editor of the journal Latin American Perspectives. Ellner is the editor of Latin America’s Radical Left and the forthcoming book The Pink Tide Experiences: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings in Twenty-First Century Latin America.
Venezuela remains in a sta...