28 February 2022
Dear Patrons,
This month has been extremely busy. Firstly, the journalist Nicholas Ford and I have released the teaser for our upcoming documentary ‘Venezuela: The Cost of Challenging an Empire’ along with a Kickstarter page in order to recover some of the money we have invested into this project from our own pockets. It has not been easy promoting this documentary but I’m glad to report we have been getting some support. Last week for example, I spoke on the making of the documentary and some of its key issues at LASNET, which is a Melbourne based Latin American solidarity network while also talking to 3ZZZ Radio in Spanish. If you can take the time to look at the above links, and think this documentary is worth supporting, please be so kind as to do so and share it with your friends.
Also, in collaboration with Nicholas, I’m pleased to refer you to the first article we have co-written on Honduras and the recent crisis the country’s new president Xiomara Castro Sarmiento Zelaya, from the Liberty and Refoundation Party, has survived. Noting the mass feminist movement that has backed her progressive presidency, Nicholas and I also look at the role the United States has played in supporting the previous two administration which have heavily been involved in the drug trade. This lengthy article is important because we document some of the massive hypocrisy of the United States so-called ‘war on drugs’, as well as the role the U.S played in violently overthrowing the progressive administration of Manuel Zelaya in 2009. In our view, the new Castro government is going to have to walk a very tight line between delivering to the constituency that voted for it, and the corrupt domestic elites and their backers Washington which will oppose progressive policy reforms.
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