Historian. PhD in Humanities from the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), Amsterdam. Professor at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar and member of the Comisión de Vivencia, Fe y Política.
The Venezuelan crisis reveals not a new world order, but rather the persistence of the old principle of the rule of the strongest, now reconfigured into an open struggle over spheres of influence.
The freshness of a head of the Church who, for a brief interlude, abandoned his imperturbable complicity with the established order could inspire in us a healthy and moderate optimism.
The new lefts incubated in the midst of a similar social rightism, worsening of economic inequalities and difficulty to build a political alternative, should read well the experiences of the most recent Latin American progressivism.
