We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Jonah GindinJonah 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. Recent articlesThe 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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