In Venezuela, the 1% won yesterday-there's nothing else you can say.

[Ken Burch]

8. The people of Venezuela got to choose who they wanted without violence or fraud

in every election the PSUV ever won. It's not like this was the first election since 1996 that was legitimate. I said I accepted the result...but that doesn't mean people who care about the workers and the poor shouldn't see it as a tragedy.

None of the "opposition" parties supports anything that will be good for the people the Left fights for. The fact that they pretend this coalition is "centrist" and that a couple of tiny, irrelevant "social democratic" parties will be powerless junior partners in this coalition doesn't change the fact that every measure it will pass will be reactionary and socially brutal...

Chavismo had some problems, but putting the old Venezuelan upper classes back in power isn't going to be the answer to anything. Privatization and austerity can never be the answer. Begging the American oil companies to come back and dominate life again can never be the answer.

And you can assume that Capriles and Co. are going to be cheering for the Republicans in 2016. They would never agree with anything Bernie would support..