Chavismo and the People: Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert

A conversation focusing on the Venezuelan grassroots movement and its struggle to maintain the communal path towards socialism.

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A mural of Hugo Chávez on a Housing Mission building. (Comando Creativo)
A mural of Hugo Chávez on a Housing Mission building. (Comando Creativo)

Cira Pascual Marquina, a VA writer, and Chris Gilbert, a Bolivarian University professor in Caracas, discuss the internal dynamics of the Bolivarian Process, the communal path towards socialism, and their book Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Monthly Review Press, October 2020).

[Begins at min. 15.]

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