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## [Being Honest About Venezuela (via Jacobin Magazine)](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/being-honest-about-venezuela-via-jacobin-magazine/1406)

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I’m embarrassed to admit how little I know about contemporary Latin American politics, as it was an area I paid a lot of attention to when I was living, writing, and volunteering in Nicaragua, about a decade after the de…