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Jonah Gindin

Jonah Gindin is a Canadian journalist living and working in Caracas, Venezuela. He writes regularly for www.venezuelanalysis.com, and occasionally for ZNet, NACLA Report on the Americas, Monthly Review, and other print and on-line publications.

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The United States, Venezuela, and 'democracy promotion': William I Robinson interviewed

The "Bolivarian revolution" led by Venezuela's combative president Hugo Chàvez provokes bitter opposition - much of it from the United States in the guise of "promoting democracy" in the oil-rich Latin American country. William I Robinson explains to Jonah Gindin how this serves the US's long-standing, global political strategy. 

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