The Dig: Venezuela
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2019
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Alejandro Velasco, Gabriel Hetland and Naomi Schiller on the profound economic, social, and political crisis in Venezuela. More than three million refugees and migrants have fled the country. Opposition figure Juan Guaidó has declared himself president. Trump and other right-wing leaders throughout the Americas quickly recognized him as just that. The US imposed new sanctions on Venezuela's oil and has hinted at the possibility of a military invasion. It's unclear what comes next, but foreign intervention would make an extremely bad situation catastrophic.
Meanwhile, many reactionaries throughout the Americas are pointing to Venezuela as proof that socialism cannot work. What is the correct analysis? What does solidarity with the Venezuelan people mean for today's left? These are all extremely complicated and urgent questions. Today, Dan interviews three experts on Venezuela to help answer them.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is How Europe |
| 0:16.8 | Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney with a foreword by Angela Davis. |
| 0:22.3 | How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious |
| 0:25.6 | masterwork of political economy detailing the impact of slavery and |
| 0:30.0 | colonialism on the history of international capitalism. |
| 0:33.8 | In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case |
| 0:37.8 | that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature |
| 0:41.5 | of geography, but a direct product of imperial extraction from the continent, |
| 0:47.2 | a practice that continues up into the present. |
| 0:50.4 | Meticulously researched, how Europe underdeveloped Africa remains a relevant study |
| 0:56.1 | for understanding the so-called great divergence between Africa and Europe just as it |
| 1:01.6 | remains a prescient resource for grasping the multiplication of global |
| 1:06.0 | inequality today. |
| 1:08.3 | In this new edition, Angela Davis offers a striking forward to the book exploring its lasting contributions |
| 1:15.7 | to a revolutionary and feminist practice of anti-imperialism. |
| 1:21.1 | How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney with a forward by Angela Davis. |
| 1:27.5 | Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm temporarily |
| 1:44.8 | broadcasting from Santiago de Chile. There is a profound economic, social, and political crisis in Venezuela. |
| 1:55.0 | More than 3 million refugees and migrants have fled the country. |
| 1:59.1 | Opposition leader Juan Guido has declared himself president. |
| 2:03.4 | Trump, and conservative presidents throughout the Americas, |
| 2:07.0 | quickly recognized him as just that. |
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