Alejandro Velasco

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Alejandro Velasco is an associate professor of Latin American history at New York University and the author of Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela. From 2015 to 2021, he was the executive editor of NACLA Report on the Americas.

An opponent of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government steps on an election campaign poster with the image of Maduro during a protest at the Petare neighborhood in Caracas on July 29, 2024, a day after the Venezuelan presidential election.

What’s Next for the Left in Venezuela? What’s Next for the Left in Venezuela?

If revolution is to win again in Venezuela, its backers at home and abroad must first recognize that they lost.

Aug 8, 2024 / Alejandro Velasco

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