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Coup Plotters in Venezuela Have no Significant Social Base
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
26 Nov 2019
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“It’s pretty obvious that there is no significant force that wants to overthrow” the government in Venezuela, said Dario Azzelini, a visiting fellow in Latin American Studies at Cornell University who has lived in barrios in Caracas and wrote a book titled, “Communes and Workers Control in Venezuela.” Instead, workers attempt to “build socialism from below,” said Azzelini. The people know that any alternative to the Maduro government “would be much, much worse” – like the death squads in neighboring Colombia.

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