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Guerrilla History

Drone Strikes, the CIA, & Nobel "Peace" Prizes - Alex Aviña + Michael Fox on the Imperialist War on Venezuela

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8669 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by two fan favorites of the show - Alexander Aviña and Michael Fox!  Here, we discuss the escalating imperialist war that is being waged on Venezuela.  With such a rapidly evolving situation, you will want to make sure that you listen to this to know the background!

Also, be sure to check out the past episodes Alex and Michael have been on the show for.  Alex has appeared on:  Dogmatism and Reading History, Football! Palestine, Copa América, & the Euros, "Israel" and Its Role in Latin America, The Mexican Dirty War: A War to the Death, The World Cup: Sport, Politics, History, and Propaganda, Coups, Oil, and Oil Nationalization, Intelligence Briefing: The Beautiful Game, and Cold War Latin America (that's a LOT of hours of material for you!)

Michael has also been on several episodes: Stories of Resistance + Brazil Update, American Imperialism's Shadow on Latin America, and The Rise of Fascism, Bolsonaro, & the Brazilian Elections

Alexander Aviña is associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University and author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside. Alex's website is available at alexanderavina.com, and he can be followed on twitter @Alexander_Avina

Michael Fox is a Brazil-based journalist, contributor to The World, former Editor of NACLA, and the host of the podcast series Under the Shadow and  Brazil on Fire, and now also Stories of Resistance. Michael can be followed on Twitter @mfox_us, you can support his project on his patreon and follow his band Monte Perdido.

Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

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0:00.0

You remember Den Bamboo?

0:09.0

No!

0:10.0

The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.

0:15.0

They didn't have anything but a rank.

0:17.0

The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.

0:28.3

Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.

0:38.2

I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckmacki.

0:40.7

Unfortunately not joined by my usual co-host, who of course is Professor Adnan Hussein,

0:45.3

historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.

0:49.8

Adnan and I have seemed to have our schedules completely opposite these days.

0:53.6

Either I'm traveling and he's not, or he's traveling and I'm not.

0:57.5

Today he's traveling and I'm not, which is why I'm here listeners.

1:01.9

But fortunately, we are joined by two outstanding and returning guests,

1:06.6

ones that we get very good feedback from you from every time that they're on.

1:10.5

Before I introduce

1:11.8

them and the topic of this episode, I'd like to remind you listeners that you can help support

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1:21.5

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1:30.8

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