By contrast, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and his Latin American and Caribbean allies assembled in the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) announced their opposition to America’s shock doctrine. ..…

In order to control the Bolivarian Armed Forces (FAB), he added, it is necessary to give guarantees to its command, which is “basically corrupt. ..…

In response to these threats, Venezuela has been holding military exercises, and President Maduro has ordered the creation of 50,000 popular defense units in the poor communities of the country within the so-called Bolivarian Militia. . ..…

The US has tried to destroy the Bolivarian Revolution since the failed attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002. . ..…

This is an ominous development for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the millions of Venezuelans who still support him and the Bolivarian Revolution despite his increasingly authoritarian rule. ..…

Webber calls Ciccariello-Maher’s work “the single most important book available in English advancing an explicitly anticapitalist framework . . . underlying the rise of Hugo Chávez” and the “Bolivarian process” in Venezuela. ..…

What remains definitively off the table is the Chavista fantasy of the ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America) as politico-commercial space for Latin American nations that would privilege interregional ties and agreements with “ideologically related” countries (that is, China;..…

Venezuela’s economic problems did not start with the Bolivarian revolution . ... The Bolivarian economic policies followed by the Chavez government were lifting Venezuelans out of poverty when Venezuela fortunately not being targeted for regime change. . ..…