Revolutionary anti-imperialist struggle from the Bronx to Venezuela, Dominican Republic to Haiti

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In Caracas, Venezuela, Max Blumenthal has a wide-ranging chat with Danny Shaw, a professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies who has lived in the Dominican Republican, Haiti, and Brazil. They discuss revolutionary anti-imperialist movements, life in poor neighborhoods in the Bronx, Malcolm X's internationalist legacy, identity politics, differences of whiteness in Latin America, problems with the US left, and humanity's age-old question: did Jesus Christ do drugs?

You can follow Danny Shaw on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dannyshawcuny

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0:00.0	We're back. If you can see it's dark behind us. This is, this is Caracas Venezuela behind us,
0:12.3	but it's actually just a glass. You probably can't see anything. You can see a few lights maybe in the city
0:18.4	because, you know, Marco Rubio isn't triggering blackouts from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
0:25.9	But, yeah, this is part two.
0:28.4	I got interrupted from part one with Danny Shaw because I got,
0:34.7	had been trying to get an interview with Rafael Correa, the former Ecuadoran president
0:39.4	who was in town for the election to observe was happening.
0:46.2	And he came through in the middle of the interview.
0:48.7	So I went to meet him and now I'm back.
0:52.4	And me and Danny, who as I said before,
0:56.9	is a professor of Latin American studies
1:00.5	at John J. College in New York,
1:02.2	but is a lot more than that.
1:03.9	It's definitely not an academic,
1:05.5	not someone I was described as an academic.
1:09.0	Just to me, that word actually takes on kind of a negative connotation.
1:13.4	But we were talking about, I mean, you're wearing a Bronx hat, you're wearing a Venezuela
1:20.0	national team jacket, how you developed and came to this, this, not just this country or this region, but the, the,
1:30.9	the socialist politics of the region that are uniquely, Venezuelan, uniquely Latin American.
1:36.7	What really brings the Bronx together with Venezuela for you?
1:43.0	Yeah, well, nothing wrong with being a plan B.
1:45.9	Rafael Correa and Evo Morales and Lugo from Paraguay.
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