Know Your Enemy: The Donroe Doctrine
Matt and Sam discuss Venezuela, Greenland, and the “Donroe Doctrine” with the Progressive International’s David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard.

Matt and Sam discuss Venezuela, Greenland, and the “Donroe Doctrine” with the Progressive International’s David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard.
For years, Venezuelans have been trapped between two rogue states, with many reduced to hoping that one could solve the problem of the other. But it is the Venezuelan people who should decide how Venezuela is governed, and by whom.
Socialists need to fight against the dangerous and destabilizing actions of the Venezuelan opposition and the United States, while supporting the vast majority of the Venezuelan people in their struggle to regain democracy.
As Latin America’s “pink tide” appears to ebb, Patrick Iber, Javier Buenrostro, Sujatha Fernandes, Bryan McCann, and Thea Riofrancos examine its lessons for democratic socialists in the region and abroad.
Targeted use of revenue from commodities can be an immediate and necessary salve against brutal levels of poverty and inequality, but Chavismo’s “extractivist” model has left Venezuela as vulnerable as ever to the whims of the international market.