July 25, 2024

The gauche caviar, indifferent to political repression in Venezuela

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This deliberate silence of sectors related to the Bolivarian revolution shows shameful complicity with the captors of the labor leader. The journalist Andrés Cañizalez, on the occasion of the XXV Forum in Sao Paulo, coined the term ‘caviar left’ (in reference to the European concept ‘gauche caviar’) to describe those who claim to be progressives but in reality, live in a bubble of comfort, distant from the people and from the victims they allegedly help. Rubén González is a leftist worker ignored by much of the left. By Carlos Patiño. Full Text-> OpenDemocracy

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