Venezuelan Democracy & Social Movements

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Episode 22

Atenea Jiménez Lemón is a Venezuelan sociologist and founder of the communal network Red Nacional de Comuneras y Comuneros and of the Universidad Campesina de Venezuela Argimiro Gabaldón, the world's first communal university...

Episode 21

Our guest is Gabriel Hetland, sociologist and associate professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino/Latina Studies at the University at Albany SUNY. He is the author of Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn.

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Episode 20

Our guest is Raylí Luján, Venezuelan journalist and columnist for La Vida de Nos, and the recipient of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) 2018 South American Journalism Award.

Episode 19

Our guest is Dr. Orçun Selçuk, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Luther College and the author of the new book The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization, a comparative analysis centered on...

Episode 18

Our guest is Dr. Nadia Mosquera Muriel, Assistant Professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she specializes in Afro-Latin American social movements, with an emphasis on Venezuela and Colombia. ​

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