Venezuela: From Idealism to Dictatorship - a podcast by ZTR Radio

Is populism the only way to advance social democracy in a continent like Latin America? Why we can sneer at Trump's or Marine Le Pen's crass political discourse but to criticise left wing populism amounts to an act of class treason? We spoke of the so called Latin American Pink Revolution and of populism and what it really means. We looked at the origins of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution, at Chávez antics and Maduro's early "hippy" idealism as union leader when he was a bus driver plus we analised the perils of social movements led by former military men. With Juan Toledo and André López Turner

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