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Amazing video. A young Venezuelan soldier calmly explains to right-wing opposition activists why they should unite as a people against the US blockade, and how Bolivia and Chile are repressing their people

This shows how Venezuela truly had a revolution
Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution totally transformed society. Workers developed a deep class consciousness.

I've spoken with poor Venezuelans in working-class barrios who have a much better understanding of politics and imperialism than many US academics
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Hugo Chávez reconstructed the military and police forces, making them progressive, nationalist, anti-imperialist, and class conscious, including many women and poor, dark-skinned Venezuelans who had been left out of society

I filmed these police at a protest in Caracas in August
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