“The current confrontation in Venezuela today is not between left and right.”
“We are witnessing the transition from a government with authoritarian tendencies to a dictatorial regime.”
“This is not a government ‘backed’ by the military, but, as Maduro himself has said, the government is led by a ‘civilian-military-police alliance’.
“Those who continue to support Maduro, including parties and movements of the Sao Paulo Forum or the spokespersons of Podemos in Spain, are causing severe damage to the left in the region and the world. They are damaging anti-capitalist struggles in the broadest sense.”
The US embargo is ‘in violation of international law’. This is a useless statement repeated a million times, and it has come back again during the ongoing Israel’s genocidal war.
“[A]fter the failure of the current, self-defined “socialist” governments, Venezuelan society tends to associate any reference to socialism or the left with the corruption and authoritarianism of the Maduro government. There has been a clear shift in collective consciousness and subjectivity that questions the classic left-right divide.”
“The government has opened enormous areas, of the national territory to what they define as ‘special economic zones’. These areas constitute spaces where environmental, labor or protection of indigenous rights legislation do not apply. The priority is to extract as many natural resources as possible.”
Ironically, from a less-than-half way towards establishing real democracy today Venezuela needs ‘a transition to (bourgeois) democracy’.
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