Nicolas Maduro

As part of the ongoing discussion on recent US intervention and the dynamics of the Venezuelan state, Shireen Akram-Boshar and Charlie Post interview Federico Fuentes.

Social movements in the region are resisting anti-popular policies. But Chavismo’s state restructuring and austerity faces no opposition in Venezuela. Manuel Azuaje Reverón explains why.

Realignments since January 3 have served to strengthen US control over Venezuela, but the conditions for recolonization were set in place years before, contends Luís Bonilla-Molina.

Elías Jaua explains Trump’s plan for Venezuela, and how the people have responded. Jaua also discusses the Maduro government, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the communes and solidarity with Venezuela.

Peter Rosset, Lia Pinheiro Barbosa and Edgardo Lander debate the meaning of Maduro’s kidnapping, how the left should judge the Bolivarian project, and how to show solidarity with Venezuela.

Opposing US intervention is necessary, but doing so without analysing the limits of the Maduro regime risks reducing politics to reflexive allegiance, writes Sankha Subhra Biswas.

Denis Ospino looks at the situation facing Venezuelan workers, the regime of “tutelage” imposed by Trump after January 3, the growing wave of trade union protests and the issue of anti-imperialist solidarity.

Eduardo Sánchez discusses the recent economic measures announced by Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and the rising protest movement for decent wages and pensions.

Roy Daza analyses the Bolivarian revolution’s trajectory, the economic, financial, and military pressures to which the country has been subjected, and how domestic policymaking has tried to cope with them.

Reinaldo Iturriza looks at the political situation in Venezuela after the January 3 US attack, the state of Chavismo and the communes and why talk of “betrayal or loyalty” when it comes to the Delcy Rodríguez’s government makes little sense.

Luis Fernando Marquez discusses recent developments in Venezuela, the people’s reactions and challenges for the left.

Franck Gaudichaud — The attack against Venezuela in early January are part of the new US strategy within the broader reorganization of the world and of inter-imperialist power relations.