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Episode Notes:

For the first episode of our brand new podcast, Alborada co-editor Nick MacWilliam is joined by Jeremy Fox, a British-Canadian writer and journalist who was an official electoral observer of Venezuela’s 2018 election.

Jeremy talks about his experience and conclusions as an observer of the election which is at the centre of the ongoing attempted coup in Venezuela, in which the United States and several of its allies have backed Juan Guaidó as Venezuelan president following his self-proclamation on 23 January.

With President Nicolás Maduro refusing to stand down, the situation has grown increasingly tense and the US and Guaidó have threatened military intervention.

Jeremy Fox is a British-Canadian writer, journalist and playwright. He has written plays in both English and Spanish, and a novel - The Chocolate Man – published in Canada by Cormorant Press (1995). Non-fiction writings include commissioned books on Brazil and Colombia, the ‘Latin American’ volume of Purnell’s ‘History of the Twentieth Century’, and many articles and shorter pieces. He has also translated several book-length works from French and Spanish into English. He was a director of openDemocracy and co-founded its Latin-American section. In May 2018 he was an official observer of the presidential election in Venezuela. www.twitter.com/JeremyJJFox

Nick MacWilliam is co-editor of Alborada. www.twitter.com/NickMacWilliam

Music by Carlos Martínez (Agent of Change). Previously unreleased track ft. sample of Venezuelan singer Ali Primera's 'El Despertar de la Historia'. www.twitter.com/agent_of_change

Corrections:

José Zapatero is Spain's former prime minister, rather than its former president (04:16)

Italy has not backed Juan Guaidó (44:55)

Links:

Jeremy Fox author page, openDemocracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/jeremy-fox

'Observing Venezuela's 2018 Election and the Myths around It' (Jeremy Fox, Alborada, 31 May 2018): https://alborada.net/venezuela-elections-chavez-maduro-media/

'Understanding the Coup in Venezuela: Best of the Web' (Alborada Staff, Alborada, 29 January 2019): https://alborada.net/venezuela-coup-selected-online-reading/