Contested Legacies podcast: Hugo Chavez, friend or foe of the Left?
Channel: New Internationalist
Date: 2019-05-09

In the pilot episode, Husna Rizvi traces the rise of one of Latin America's most revered and vilified Leftists, Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's 45th President. Also heard in this episode: political theorist George Ciccariello Maher; Eva Golinger, Chávez's former advisor; Gregory Wilpert, founder of VenezuelaAnalysis.com and Alan Macleod, an academic researching the news media's relationship to the Bolivarian nation. 

Photo credit: Karel Fuentes
Image by Kumail Rizvi
Music: 'Como Llora Una Estrella' by Felix Rodriguez