A defence of armed

Abstract

A recent interview of mine, first published in Mexico and then reprinted in some other Latino-American countries and in El Pais, may have given a thoroughly wrong idea of where I stand towards the recent populist trend of radical politics. Although the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela deserves a lot of criticism, we should nonetheless always bear in mind that it is also the victim of a well-orchestrated counter-revolution, especially of a long economic warfare. There is nothing new in such a procedure. Back in the early 1970s, in a note to CIA advising them how to undermine the democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende, Henry Kissinger wrote succinctly: “Make the economy scream.”