Gracias a la Revista Nueva Sociedad por publicar una versión en español de mi artículo para @currenthistory1.bsky.social. La nueva era del criptoautoritarismo nuso.org/articulo/320...

The Price of American Authoritarianism What Can Reverse Democratic Decline?

We are glad to finally see this piece out, after a long wait. Thanks to excellent reviewers and especially many researchers, non-governmental organizations and international agencies that have helped gather information to not keep the Venezuelan crisis forgotten. #OpenAccess #Venezuela

📣Publication Alert! #OpenAccess "Embodying the Cost of a Predatory State: Depletion via Social Reproduction in Venezuela’s Crisis (2013–2021)" just came out! Here is a short summary ⬇️ academic.oup.com/sp/advance-a...

@dsmilde explains that operation southern spear may not only unleash a costly and unpredictable conflict, but it could further undermine US democracy. thedispatch.com/article/vene...

Today @javiercorrales.bsky.social explains that one thing is to overthrow a dictator and a very different one is to establish a democracy. And why Trump is unlikely to achieve the second in Venezuela. time.com/7337974/trum...

After a long time in the works, @benedictebull.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the new edited collection edited by Joy Gordon on the effects of economic sanctions worldwide now out with @universitypress.cambridge.org. Check it out. www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

Full article: Geo-themed and geo-centric thought: reflections on the onto-epistemological basis of critical thought’s geologic turn Mauricio Collao Quevedo www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PFJNY...

Job - please share widely! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South. Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

"Drake’s works stand out for a stunning act of defiance: ...it was illegal at the time for enslaved people to learn how to read or write. On one jar, Drake reflected...: 'I wonder where is all my relation / Friendship to all—and every nation.'" www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...

"One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver." apnews.com/article/trum...

"Maduro is a heinous dictator, and there is a need for international engagement. But what is to be done should be developed on the basis of real facts and analysis, not the tall tales of exiled and displaced leaders, which have led to disastrous miscalculations in the past" by @dsmilde.bsky.social

Enjoy free access (for a limited time) to this essay in our November special issue by @antuliorosales.bsky.social, on the links between cryptocurrency, corruption, and authoritarianism, from the United States to El Salvador and Venezuela.

Check out my new piece -> A New Age of Crypto-Authoritarianism in Current History. It is now open access! online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

Our November special issue on Anti-Governance is out! Featuring @erik-jones.bsky.social on the abandonment of institutions, @cettamainwaring.bsky.social, Andonea Dickson & Thom Tyerman on hardline migration control, Gideon Lasco on medical populism…

Also in our new special issue: @erolsaglam.bsky.social on conspiracism going mainstream, @antuliorosales.bsky.social on cryptocurrency and corruption, Holly Case on authoritarian fact-making, and @duncanbell.bsky.social on tech tycoons’ posthumanism.

@antuliorosales.bsky.social y yo estamos muy contentes por este reconocimiento y con ánimos de difundir el artículo en cuanto sea publicado. Gracias a @lasavenezuela.bsky.social por generar espacios de estudio y apoyo a los estudios sobre #Venezuela 🇻🇪♥️

🚨La Sección de Estudios Venezolanos de LASA se complace en anunciar el Premio Paula Vásquez 2025 🚨 MEJOR ARTÍCULO EN EL ÁREA DE HUMANIDADES “Isabel and Orocomay: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Politics of Territorial Control in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean” de @fidelrodv.bsky.social

Full article: FinTech as a state-orchestrated strategy: redefining financialization of households in Argentina www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎥Pulling back the curtain✨Meet the section heads who are crafting an unforgettable #CPSA_ACSP26 experience-They're ❤️beat of the conference! 👉🏽 shorturl.at/AgUow @russellawilliams.bsky.social @jbroschek.bsky.social @antuliorosales.bsky.social @jonathanrose.bsky.social @emmettmacfarlane.com

Here some of the initial analyses about the María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize award. 🧵

Q&A: Facts and Fictions Regarding Venezuelan Crime and Drug Trafficking open.substack.com/pub/davidsmi...

Venezuela and the United States by @dsmilde.bsky.social davidsmilde.substack.com?r=2cdt1t&utm...

Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state: Review of International Political Economy: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Network State, Exit, and the Political Economy of Venture Capital - Jutel - Antipode By @ojutel.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

People on board the boat were said to have survived an initial strike and were killed in a follow-up attack. Officials said the boat appeared to have turned back toward shore. Three sources, including Sen. Rand Paul said the boat was attacked by one or more drones. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

For the poor in Venezuela, crypto is a makeshift opportunity for survival. For the rich, it's a tool for making quick profits and side-stepping sanctions. Thoughts on crypto adoption in Venezuela from @antuliorosales.bsky.social & myself for Inter-American Dialogue drive.google.com/file/d/1LmQ3...

Follow the work of expert Venezuelanists on the evolving situation in the Caribbean. @dsmilde.bsky.social @jpolga.bsky.social @maripuerta.com

On the US incursion in the Caribbean with eye on #Venezuela, we recommend looking at our members' analysis for guidance and comprehension of the complex situation. In no specific order and not necessarily in agreement amongst them. 🧵

Today lecturing about the Expulsion of the Jews in 1492. In other years, students pointed out how cruel it was to give people three months to sell their possessions and leave Castile and Aragon. How is that going down now that US is grabbing people in the street and deporting them to foreign gulags?

"The cruel irony here is that a military operation applauded by Venezuelan immigrants in hopes of freeing their country from Nicolás Maduro is more likely to free Donald Trump to deport them from the U.S., without the benefits of due process." @dsmilde.bsky.social right on point, as usual.

In this article on @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social I try to peel away some of the nonsense and figure out what is going on with the US operation off of the coast of VE. TLDR: it's less about drugs than geopolitics and immigration. thedispatch.com/article/vene...

On the US threats off #Venezuela ´having warships off the coast of Venezuela, presumably to fight off Cartel de los Soles and its supposed operational arm, the Tren de Aragua, from “flooding the U.S. with drugs,” could pass muster for a “military conflict.”´ thedispatch.com/article/vene...

“Political violence must cease immediately and the Venezuelan people's right to freedom of expression and peaceful political participation must be respected.” www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/s...

The research we do at @dawnfeminist.bsky.social is meant to be a tool for change! Here is our toolkit ready to be used in classrooms and discussion groups, movement building and organizing!!

Excellent interview with @dsmilde.bsky.social on the US military moves in the Caribbean. What is actually going on and what we must watch for. Have a listen.

❗NEW PAPER❗I'm pleased to announce the publication of my article, "Computing #Bitcoin on #Soviet Legacies: Material #Geopolitics of #Cryptocurrency #Mining in the Global East", in issue no. 15 of @journal-reset.bsky.social ➡️https://journals.openedition.org/reset/5951 1/

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bukele and Trump and all of their goons belong in The Hague. www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

MONEY BY VILE MEANS Over 10 years in the making and one of Compact's longest essays ever. This is my definitive deep dive guide to critique Bitcoin. From libertarian ideal to cynical state capture, I debunk the myths of Bitcoin and reveal its dark reality. www.compactmag.com/article/mone...

Out now in New Political Economy is our article on China's impact in Venezuela's economic development. @benedictebull.bsky.social and I analyze the China-Venezuela relationship's effect on three main dimensions of development: industrialisation, economic diversification, and institutional capacity 🧵

El Salvador approves indefinite presidential reelection and extends terms to 6 years

For those interested in learning more about the techniques, tools, strategies, heuristics, models and processes I teach about in my workshops, you can check the hashtag #RPVSky or my blog: www.raulpacheco.org/blog/

Andry José Hernandez Romero, I hope you have space to heal & I hope you find your way home. We did not forget you & we will not forget you.