
Chavismo at its most dramatic moment.
'The US military attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro pose the toughest challenge yet to the process initiated in 1999.'

Breno Altman is the director of the Opera Mundi website and Samuel magazine.
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Men like Paulo Frateschi have shown that dignity can be a form of activism.
"Lajst and Schwartsman merely reveal the modus operandi of the Zionist lobby," writes Breno Altman.
'Just as fighting Nazism wasn't hatred towards Germans, fighting Zionism isn't antisemitism,' Altman points out.
"A great friend and comrade, a brother in dreams and struggles, Eduardo Sanovicz, passed away this morning," says journalist Breno Altman.
"Universalizing the concept of democracy is a historical crippling flaw, situated between the arsenal of bourgeois hegemony and surrender to liberal thought," says Breno Altman.
Postponement or even defeat of Bill 2630 will not mean impunity for the collusion between the far right and the platforms in which it operates.
Pelé won more followers than Christ, Allah, or Marx. His genius on the field flooded the planet with happiness, writes Breno Altman.
"By recognizing the republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, Moscow is not expressing any inclination to yield to the expansionist ambitions of the US," writes Altman.
"One of the dilemmas for this broad-front solution is that it's not Pinochet's dictatorship that's on trial, as it was in 1990, for example, but the model created by the forces that succeeded the general. Will the fear of neo-fascism be enough to change who's in the dock?", writes Breno Altman.
"Because that's how, playing 'Peter and the Wolf,' like in the classic children's story, Bolsonaro controls the agenda and the movements of the other forces, even in moments when he is demoralized and his weakness is celebrated, lowering his guard while the captain takes a breather and prepares to do it all again."
"Over the last 80 years, the major capitalist countries have dedicated themselves to diluting the concept of imperialism, a central idea for revolutionary currents in understanding the global class struggle, replacing it with a vague democratic discourse capable of masking the geopolitical interests of belligerent powers and domesticating the left," writes journalist Breno Altman.