Long Reads: Latin America’s State of Siege w/ Tony Wood
This is a special, extra episode of Long Reads.
It’s now two weeks since the US attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro. Donald Trump and Marco Rubio made explicit threats to countries like Colombia and Cuba in the aftermath, washed down with the usual fantasies about drug trafficking.
Tony Wood joins Long Reads to discuss the attack on Venezuela and what it means for the Latin American left. How have left-wing governments and parties been reacting, and what are the long-term implications going to be?
Tony is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Colorado…
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