International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine

The process of accumulating wealth in the formation of a new Venezuelan bourgeoisie (2002-2026)

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2026-02-14T19:59:35Z

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the exploitation of oil in Venezuela has shaped particular characteristics of capitalist development: the formation of social classes and their political representation, the model of bourgeois enrichment, and forms of social control. The Brazilian economist Celso Furtado defined the Venezuelan case as “underdevelopment with an abundance of foreign exchange,” manifested in deindustrialisation, corruption, rapid concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, and severe poverty crises.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Economy, Venezuela

Redemocratise society and politics to overcome the colonial situation

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2026-02-06T10:50:00Z

“To tell the truth, however painful it may be, there are no possibilities at this time for unified mobilisations that demonstrate anti-imperialist national unity. Maduro's regime has led us to this disaster.”

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Venezuela

Epitaph for a Revolution?

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2026-01-24T16:46:40Z

“The central task is to defend the homeland's sovereignty with anti-imperialism from those who live by their labour—that is, every step in defence of the Republic must be accompanied by the demand for redemocratisation of Venezuelan society and wage justice. There is no territorial sovereignty without political sovereignty.“

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Venezuela

Trumpist recolonization and the coming resistance in Venezuela

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2026-01-09T07:44:00Z

“Up to 2 January, the main task of revolutionaries was to recover the minimum democratic freedoms that would allow the working class to express its opinion and organize itself to confront the imperialist offensive and the authoritarian drift of the Maduro government. Since 3 January, and after the White House's announcements of turning Venezuela into a gringo colony, the priority has become the defence of national independence with the broadest regime of political freedoms for patriotic forces. The facts will tell if the situation evolves towards a stage of national liberation.”

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Venezuela

The United States takes Venezuela's territory and government by storm

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2026-01-04T16:35:33Z

“The democratic, progressive, left-wing and revolutionary sectors need to build a broad and diverse global alliance that places anti-imperialism and the struggle for the sovereignty and self-determination of the people as a global priority, in the era of Trumpism and its doctrine of national security.”

- Venezuela 2026 / United States (USA), Venezuela

The Imperialist Threat and the Possible Courses of the Conflict

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2025-12-23T22:42:25Z

As if they were scripts written by Warren Ellis – The Authority, Transmetropolitan, Planetary – in which exaggerated arguments abound, during the last four months we have witnessed a disproportionate media and military offensive against Venezuelan sovereignty. The double standard of the US administration has gone from buying Venezuelan oil – under neocolonial commercial conditions, as a result of the sanctions imposed by themselves and the compliant attitude of the Maduro government – to presenting the state leadership as a criminal cartel dedicated to drug trafficking, with the aim of justifying a deployment and eventual military attack.

- Venezuela 2026 / United States (USA), Venezuela

Trump reveals the real reasons behind the war on Venezuela

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2025-12-21T09:53:08Z

Venezuela and its people are the first direct victims of the "Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine." This war, which has already been declared, is not against drug trafficking or the Maduro regime, but rather for oil and rare earth minerals, military bases, information, and misgovernment. All democratic, progressive, popular, and leftist forces must denounce and confront the US offensive against Venezuela, which in no way means defending the Maduro government.

- IVP611 - December 2025 / United States (USA), Venezuela

Nobel Peace Prize: Beyond the Dismay…

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2025-11-08T07:12:50Z

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado (MCM) sparked an unusual debate on social media. However, the arguments for and against are more driven by emotion than by reason. Is it possible to approach Venezuelan reality solely in a Manichean way, from the perspective of polarization?

- IVP610 - November 2025 / Venezuela

Panama is the epicenter of the struggle in Latin America

José Cambra, Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2025-06-03T08:38:29Z

A small country of four million 200 thousand inhabitants is showing Latin America and the world that it is possible to confront the interests of financial capital and vulture funds in the third decade of the 21st century.

- IVP605 - June 2025 / Panama

The pro-Maduro left abandons the workers and people of Venezuela

Ana C. Carvalhaes, Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2024-08-20T10:45:47Z

Unlike what had happened for the last 25 years in Venezuelan elections – and there have been dozens since Hugo Chávez's victory in 1998 – this time, after the presidential vote on 28 July, the broad Latin American left, including the entire body of supporters of ‘progressivism', has split from top to bottom.
An ever smaller, but still numerous, sector, full of intellectuals, echoes the argument of the São Paulo Forum , according to which, in order to save Venezuela and the region from US (…)

- IV595 - August 2024 / Venezuela