Venezuelan protest overrun by government forces.

[another_liberal]

125. Thank you for this link . . .

The article it leads to is a masterpiece of a summary. It has informed me more concerning what is currently happening in Venezuela than, perhaps, everything else I have read on that subject. The authors' vision of the most recent unrest as a "Third Wave of Counter-Revolution" is in itself an important insight, but their description of the newly reinvented make up of that counter revolution and the rationale for its reinvention is even more of a revelation to me:

Beginning in roughly 2008, the right-wing of the perennially divided student movement was sought out as a new vanguard through which to advance the opposition agenda. The counter-revolution had not enjoyed significant successes in linking organically to any other social subject that might otherwise have flag-shipped their enterprise. The large landowners and big business sectors that constitute their leadership are incapable of forging a national, unifying movement with the incorporation of wider social layers. The presence of the oppositional Right within the formal working class is minimal, as is its influence among the popular sectors more generally, at least for now. It is thus understandable, within its own logic, why the Right has sought out the students as a field of struggle.

Once again, thank you very much for taking the trouble to share this information with me.