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Why is Chavismo still so popular amid Venezuela's worst economic downturn in decades?

Iran, Russia Consider Following Venezuela's Lead. Russia and Iran have expressed interest in developing their own digital currencies to help combat U.S.-imposed sanctions.

To build the new socialist society, it is necessary to develop new, socialist concepts.8 So, let me end by paraphrasing Che from his Man and Socialism in Cuba: the pipe dream that socialism can be achieved through capitalist accounting and capitalist concepts of efficiency can lead into a blind alley. And you wind up there after having travelled a long distance with many crossroads, and it is hard to figure out just where you took the wrong turn.

This is not “democracy promotion," it is regime change, by any means necessary.

The PSUV won 54% of the total vote, marking a significant recovery since the ruling party's landslide defeat in the 2015 parliamentary elections when it garnered only 43.7% of the vote.

A right-wing insurgency, with the United States' backing, threatens a fragile democracy.

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"We visited several polling places and that was when we were just so moved by what was going on,” said the president of the New York State Nurses Association.

“No impression should be permitted in Latin America that they can get away with this, that it’s safe to go this way. All over the world it’s too much the fashion to kick us around.” * U.S. President Nixon. Right now it is critical for the U.S. public to get some lessons on U.S. imperialism and Latin American history, and for progressive voices to condemn U.S. intervention in elections throughout Latin America and, in particular, in funding violence in Venezuela.

To get a better sense of the situation on the ground in Venezuela, Green Left Weekly’s Federico Fuentes interviewed Steve Ellner, a well-known analyst of Venezuelan and Latin American politics and a retired professor at Venezuela’s Universidad de Oriente.