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Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions

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William I Robinson

William I Robinson is professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara

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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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