Author: Daniel Chavez

Daniel Chavez is a Uruguayan-Dutch political economist. He is a senior project officer at the Transnational Institute and a senior research associate at the University of Johannesburg. This article is being published jointly by New Politics and the South African magazine Amandla!

As the global right advances and socialists worldwide grapple with how to build left alternatives, Venezuela’s crisis raises fundamental strategic questions that extend beyond regional borders. The current political, economic, and social situation under Nicolás Maduro’s government represents one of