Tag Archives | Chavismo

Who’s afraid of Hugo Chávez? Race, empire, and Chavismo’s revolutionary subjectivity

Originally published: Black Agenda Report on March 17, 2021 (more by Black Agenda Report) |

Lucas Koerner examines the U.S. Empire’s fixation with Chavismo.
Chavismo and the Left: A conversation with Reinaldo Iturriza (Part II)

Cira Pascual Marquina

A Chavista author and former minister talks about the Bolivarian Revolution’s innovations and internal tensions.
The wild and the disaffected: A conversation with Reinaldo Iturriza (Part I)

Cira Pascual Marquina

A Chavista author and former minister talks about the Bolivarian Revolution’s class basis and the risks that apathy poses to the political process.
Venezuela: ‘our revolutionary democratic experience is at stake’

Originally published: Green Left on July 3, 2017 by Federico Fuentes interviewing Reinaldo Iturriza (more by Green Left) | (Posted Jul 07, 2017)

Revolutionary activist and sociologist Reinaldo Iturriza has spent many years working with popular movements in Venezuela and writing on the rise of Chavismo as a political movement of the poor. He also served as Minister for the Communes and Social Movements, and then Minister for Culture in President Nicolas Maduro’s cabinet between 2013 and 2016.