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I think Boston Review showed real integrity in printing my response to the pieces it ran by Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sanchez. Thank you. Full: ______________________________________________________________________________ Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sánchez claim that Bolivarian Venezuela is “sporadically but consistently” showing symptoms of “state-directed anti-Semitism” as part of a political project of rendering the “internal opposition as abject and […] To the Boston Review: I read Claudio Lomnitz’s and Rafael Sánchez’s piece accusing Venezuela of manifesting “signs of state-directed anti-Semitism” with a mélange of surprise and shock. Surprise, because frankly, criticism of Venezuela veers far too frequently into the hysterical. Lomnitz’s and Sánchez’s piece was a subtler and more textured analysis of the “uses of hate” in […] swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/XGprwzQ5UoU&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-2083-youtube-1″, “425”, “344”, “10”, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, […] I was checking out the State Department’s daily press briefings, to see if the Goldstone report had been mentioned. It had been, on the 15th, but in an evasive and oblique manner: “It’s over 500 pages. It has – it covers a number of very complex issues and very sensitive issues. We want to take some […] So one of Hugo Chavez’s allies is Iran, and one of Venezuela’s arms suppliers is Russia. At the mention of the two countries, the right-thinking American is supposed to quiver, quail, and vote Republican. Or Democrat–what’s the difference, again? The Venezuelan elite, once again showcasing a cognitive/ideological frame of reference that’s pretty much identical to that […] I will say I was stunned that the estimable liberal-left Boston Review ran this attack, accusing Hugo Chavez and Bolivarian Venezuela of being bastions of bigotry. It was some time ago; I had assumed that the magazine received a flood of letters, and would offer a print forum for responses. Well, the unmoderated comments–online only–savaged the […] The Venezuelan coffee harvest is not going to meet domestic demand. This is surprising and unsurprising. It’s surprising because Venezuela has historically been a coffee exporter. Western Venezuela is particularly propitious for coffee cultivation. Coffee was Venezuela’s major crop until the mid-1960s. So what happened? A quick tangent: one is tempted to examine the reaction to this […] Agrarian reforms proceed like this: either massive peasant pressures from below, usually taking the form of land invasions–jacqueries–inspire a reformist or revolutionary state to pass a law legitimizing or encouraging the land invasions, turning them into a legal land reform, or government decrees encourage or enable peasant mobilization, in a spiral of escalating mobilization and legitimization. […] |
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