Emiliano Teran Mantovani

A pedestrian walks past a mural featuring oil wells in Caracas, Venezuela on August 29, 2026, a day after US President Donald Trump announced a deal giving the United States a stake in Venezuela’s oil reserves

The Trump–Rodríguez pact and Venezuela’s neocolonial subordination

The US-Venezuela oil deal, a product of the pact between “brutalist” imperialism and an authoritarian regime, represents the exercise of arbitrary power through neocolonial subordination, writes Emiliano Teran Mantovani.
Protest in Venezuela

The pro-Maduro left’s blind spots: Against the ‘nuancing’ of Venezuela’s disaster

Emiliano Teran Mantovani argues Steve Ellner’s defence of Venezuela’s Maduro government reflects a tendency on the left to defend decaying regimes rather than chart out alternative paths rooted in popular struggles.