by Clifton Ross
INDEX
“Aaron” (Calhoun House resident), 59
Aborigines, 336–336
Adair, Jackie, 37
AD (Venezuela, Democratic Action), 240, 242, 253, 289, 296, 323
A Dream Made of Stars, 96–97
AFP (French Press Agency), 200
AFSC (American Friends Service Committee), 48
Agropatria (Venezuela, formerly Agroisleña), 209
AIM (American Indian Movement), 335
Aissami, Tarek el, 288, 355 n8
ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America), 143, 146–147
Albarrán, Arturo, 158–159, 180–181, 185–186, 219–220, 222, 280–283, 292–297
Albarrán, Mayi, 293
Albert, Michael, 302
Alconbury (England), 26
Alegría, Claribel, 88
Alegría, Daniel, 88–89, 175
Alemán, Arnoldo, 173, 174
Allende, Salvador, 300
Al Qaeda, 21, 201
Alvarado, Marino, 226–227
Amazonas (State, Venezuela), 324
Amnesty International, 318, 321, 324
AMNLAE (Luisa Amanda Espinoza Association of Nicaraguan Women), 3
“Ana Luz” (grassroots PSUV activist), 182
Andrés Bello Catholic University, 320
Anglo-Mexican Institute, 113, 115
Anonymous Groups, 101, 134, 195–196, 201
Antonio, (of the Popular Education Collective, Comitán), 136
Anzoátegui (Venezuela), 284
Añu (Indigenous people), 287
Aporrea, 277
Arado, “Poeta Simon,” 151, 153, 212
Argentina, 130, 187, 208, 251, 332, 359
Aricagua, 159
Arreaza, Jorge, 216, 225, 310
Ashbery, John, 80
Assembly of God (Church), 24–25
Aswan Dam (Egypt), 232
Augustine, St., 18
Australia, 335
Bakunin, Mikhail, 21
Baldwin, James, 2
Ballesteros, Luis, 113
Bandera Roja (Red Flag), 153, 323
Barí (Indigenous people), 202, 283, 285, 289
Bari, Judi, 105, 123, 271–272
Barinas, Venezuela, 186
Barreto, Cerezo, 78
Barrio Adentro (Venezuela, Inside the Neighborhood), 145–146
Barrio Marta Quezada (Nicaragua, “Gringolandia”), 88
Bartimaeus Community, 64
Basic Call to Consciousness, A (Haudenosaunee document), 335
Batista, (Fulgencio), 240, 241
Batko, Marc, 58, 71, 74, 78, 86–87
BCV (Venezuelan Central Bank), 307
Beatles, The, 34
Becker, Marc, 188
Bedaña, Alejandro, 167
Berdyaev, Nicholas, 56–57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 67, 70, 332, 334, 339
Berkeley, California, 47–48
Berkeley Christian Coalition, 51, 54, 64
Berkeley City Club, 68, 71
Berkeley City College (see also Vista Community College), 134, 138, 158, 191
Berkeley Emergency Food Program, 49
Berkeley Free Church, 49–51, 52
Berkeley Free Clinic, 49
Berrigan, Fr. Daniel, 2–3, 44, 49, 62–64
Berrigan, Fr. Phil, 44, 49
Bertolucci, Bernardo, 53
Betancourt, Rodrigo, 69
Betancourt, Romulo, 232, 240–242
Birriel, Ignacio and Jimena, 186–187
Black Panthers, 2, 94
Blasco, Emili J., 216–217
Bloch, Ernst, 74, 87, 145
Blumhardt, Christoph, 56
Bob Jones University, 38
Bocaranda, Nelson, 277
Bogotá, Colombia, 159
Bolívar, Simon, 144–145,150, 323
Bolivia, 6, 155, 158, 161, 208, 251, 253, 328 n 42
Bolivarian Constitution of 1999 (Venezuela), 263, 266, 268, 269, 295
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 44, 53
Borge, Tomás, 83, 89, 138, 165
Bostrom, Karen, 55–56, 57, 58, 77, 78
Bravo, Douglas, 249
Brazil, 6, 200, 291, 308
Brenan, Gerald, 21
Bright, Bill, 50–51
Brown, John Pairman, 49
Brown, Timothy, C., 167
Buber, Martin, 3
Bukharin, Nicolai, 3
Burbach, Roger, 190, 279–280
Bush, George H.W. (father), 252
Bush, George W., 1431, 142, 143, 201, 217, 252, 300
Bustamante, Alejandro Pérez, 168
Cabañas, Lucio, 120
Cabello, Diosdado, 216, 309, 355 n8
Cabimas (Venezuela), 283
Cadafe (Anonymous Company for Fomentation and Administration of Electricity), 225
Café Paris Tropical (Mérida), 153, 185, 218
Caldera, Rafael, 143, 237, 240, 250, 253
Calhoun House, 60, 65, 66, 68, 70, 71, 77–78, 101, 107
Câmara, Dom Hélder, 70
Cambio de Siglo, 178, 185
Campos, Emilio, 237–239, 243–245, 246, 252, 291
Capriles, Henrique (See Radonski, Henrique Capriles)
Campus Crusade for Christ, 50, 52
Camus, Albert, 53
Capuchin (Catholic Order), 288
Caracas, 141–142, 222, 247–248
Caracas Chronicles, 277
Carbonorca (Orinoco Coal), 231, 234, 237, 244, 297
Cardenal, Ernesto, 68, 69, 70, 71, 83–84, 87, 91, 138, 139–140, 174
Cardenal, Fernando, 84, 136, 174
Cárdenas, Arias, 384
Cardoso, Fernando, 284
“Carl” and “Mireya” (guesthouse in Guayana), 233, 234, 235, 293, 297
Carlson, Chris, 227
Carreño, Pedro, 196
Carroll, Joseph S., 38–39
Carroll, Rory, 243
Carter Center, 215–216
Carter, Jimmy, 65, 166, 171, 172, 215
Casa de Tres Mundos, 139
Castillo, Marco, 211, 213, 221–224
Castro, Fidel, 69, 114–115, 155, 165, 235, 240–243, 241n10, 251, 268
Catholic Worker House (Oakland), 93
Catholic Worker Movement, 49, 56
CCURA (Autonomous United Revolutionary Class Current), 249
CCOB (Consumer’s Cooperative of Berkeley), 103–104
Cecosola Cooperative (Venezuela), 249
Central University of Venezuela, 320
CERIGUA (Center for Informative Reports on Guatemala), 97, 100
CFS (Christians for Socialism), 75–76
Chacón, Jesse, 225
Chamorro, Pedro Joaquín, 91, 170
Chao, Calvin, 51
Chatwin, Bruce, 335–336
Chávez, Hugo, 140–144, 146–147, 155, 160–161, 162, 163, 175, 178, 179, 181, 182–183, 185, 186, 190, 193–194, 196, 197, 200, 201, 203, 205, 214, 217, 225, 232, 233, 235, 236, 237, 238, 242–243, 244, 245, 248, 249, 250–255, 258–259, 262–270, 272–273, 284, 289, 291, 296, 3020, 301, 302, 306, 307, 310, 312, 313, 3175, 320, 324, 329, 340
Chávez, María Gabriela, 310–311
Cherney, Darryl, 105, 123, 271–272
Cherryvale, South Carolina, 28
Chevron, 220, 313, 328
Chile, 187, 300
China, 94, 130, 220, 223, 236, 289, 294, 328
China Books and Periodicals, 94
Chirino, Orlando, 249, 254
Chomsky, Noam, 194, 329
Christian Identity Movement, 21
Chumbawamba, 107
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 85, 87, 95, 167, 169, 283, 300
CITGO, 301, 302
CITIC Corporation, 236
Civil War in Nicaragua, The, 166
Clarke, Ben (Jesse), 93, 95, 96–97, 119
Clean Air Act, 301
CNE (Venezuela, National Electoral Council), 199, 215, 216, 217, 316
COCEI (Peasant Worker Student Coalition of the Isthmus of Teh
uantepec), 135
Cohn, Norman, 54
COINTELPRO, (US Counter-Intelligence Program), 50
Colombia, 69, 159–160, 198–202, 204, 284, 286, 287, 298, 299, 304
Coloncito (Venezuela), 206, 212
Comedor Sara’s (Nicaragua), 88, 89
Comitán, Mexico, 136
Committee of Victims of Police Abuse (Venezuela), 249
Community of the South (Uruguay), 154
Comte, Auguste, 61, 289
CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador), 288, 289
Conatel, (National Telecommunications Commision), 318
Consecomercio (National Council of Commerce and Services), 314
COPEI (Independent Political Electoral Organization Committee), 162, 240, 253, 289, 296, 348 n11
Corazón de Tinta, 248
Coronil, Fernando, 264
Corpoelec (Venezuela, National Electrical Corporation), 225–226
Corrales, Javier, 276, 301
Correa, Rafael, 163, 288, 289, 291
Correo del Caroní, 225, 234, 293
Correo del Orinoco, 179, 185
Counterpunch(.org), 279
Crane (Ross), Mary Carol, (mother), 23–24
CST (Venezuela, Socialist Workers’ Union), 256
CTV (Venezuelan Workers’ Confederation), 254
Cuba, 69, 82, 99, 109–115, 119, 167, 189, 239, 240–243, 304
Cúcuta, Colombia, 159, 187, 197–199, 200, 201–202, 203, 204, 280, 281, 282, 297, 298, 299, 308
Curl, John, 67, 125
CVG (Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana, “Basic Industries), 231–233, 234, 236, 237, 238, 243, 255
CWLF (Christian World Liberation Movement), 50–52, 54
Daka (chain stores, Venezuela), 316
Darwin, Charles, 19
Dávila, María Vicenta, 181–182
Dávila, William, 214
Davis, Wade, 335
Day, Dorothy, 44, 49, 56, 68
Dead Kennedys, 93
Debray, Regis, 70
De La Torre, Carlos, 2797
Democracy Now, 319
Democratic Revolution of 1958 (Venezuela), 240, 253, 266
Diamond, Stephen, 166, 169, 170–1742
Diario El Vigía, 178, 185
Díaz, Vicente, 315
Dicks, The, 93
Diego, Eliseo, 108–109, 1153–117
Disneyland, 85
Dissidentvoice(.com), 278
DolarToday(.com), 277, 314
Don Quixote, 101
Dornbusch, Rudiger, 276
Dorsey, “Buddy,” 30
Dragon in the Tropics, 276
Draper, Hal, 323
Duffy, Michael, 29, 31, 33, 35
Dukto Group (subsidiary of DCS), 301
Durant, Oklahoma, 42, 44
Dwight House, 52, 53, 55
Dylan, Bob, 32
Earth First!, 105, 123
Economist, The, 194, 315
Ecuador, 158, 163, 188, 251, 253, 288, 335
EDC (Venezuela, Electricidad de Caracas), 225
Edelca, (Venezuela, Electrification of Caroní, CA), 225
“Eduardo” (Cuban ex-Lieutenant), 110–111
Edwards, Sebastian, 276
Ejido (Venezuela), 282, 292, 297
Elaine (Erwin), James, 42, 45
Eliot, T.S., 56, 57
El Salvador, 66, 81, 99, 163, 166, 172, 173
El Vigía (Venezuela), 208, 293
Encovi (Poll on the Conditions of Life in Venezuela), 320
Enders, Thomas, 166
Erwin, David (brother of James Elaine), 43
Engels, Frederick, 20, 75
EI (Evangelical Institute), 38
Evans, Nicmer, 306, 311
Everson, William (Brother Antoninus), 44, 56, 57, 61–62, 71, 108, 115, 117, 334
Ewing, J.R., 81
EZLN (Mexico, Zapatista National Liberation Army), 3, 109, 113, 1175, 119–122
Fabilli, Mary, 108
Fallujah, Iraq, 141
FALN (Venezuela, Armed Forces of the Revolution), 222
FBST (Venezuela, Bolivarian Socialist Workers’ Force), 256, 295
Fellini, Federico, 53
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 91
Fernández, Ana María, 292
Fernández, Cristóbal, 292
Ferrominera (CVG Ferrominera Orinoco), 234, 297
Festinger, Leon, 17
Fetcho, David, 64
Financial Times, The, 195
First Baptist Church of Madill, 40
Flatland Distribution, 96
Flores, Cilia, 310
FONDEN (Venezuela, National Development Fund), 193
Forché, Carolyn, 66
Foucault, Michel, 290
Fox, Michael, 188
Franqui, Carlos, 241
Frazer, Betty, 86, 87
Freire, Paulo, 191
FSLN (Nicaragua, Sandinista National Liberation Front), 82, 83, 99, 136–139, 164–167, 169–172
FZLN (Mexico, Zapatista National Liberation Front), 120
G2 (Cuban Intelligence agency), 223, 242–243, 309, 328
Gaddafi, Muammar, 265
Gallagher, Sharon, 54
Gallup, 317
Galpon de Corrales, 155
German National Socialism, 269
“Geronimo” (Cúcuta taxi driver), 197–198
Gilliam, Gwen, 95–96, 100, 101
Gilman Street (aka 924 Gilman Street), 107
Giordani, Jorge, 193, 311, 315
Gladden, Washington, 48
Global Exchange, 119
Goajira (Venezuela), 284
Goff, James and Margaret, 87
Gómez, Gen. Juan Vicente, 236, 288
González, Pedro Joaquín, 167
González, Rubén, 254–255, 280, 294–297
Goodman, Amy, 319
Gore, Al, 217
Gossett, Randy, 31–32, 35
Gossett, Gary, 31–32
Gossett, Jeff, 31–32
Graduate Theological Union, 62
Graham, Billy, 24
Gran Café (Venezuela), 248
Granma, 109, 112
Grant, Jess, 106, 124
Gray, John, 16, 20, 339, 340
Great Law of Peace, the, 335
Great Peacemaker, 335
Guardian, The, 194
Guasare River (Venezuela), 285
Guatavita, Colombia, 160
Guatemala, 85, 97, 172, 173, 302
Guayana: El Milagro Al Revés, 222
Guayana, Venezuela, 231–233, 237, 238, 245, 254, 255, 280, 293
Guayana Socialist Plan, 231, 233
Guevara, Ernesto “Che,” 69, 110
Guevara-Rosas, Erika, 321
Guinness, Os, 43
Guri (Dam), Venezuela, 232
Gutiérrez, Gustavo, 70
Hardegree, Joe, 75
Hardy, José Toro, 313
Haudenosaunee (see Iroquois Confederacy)
Hausmann, Ricardo, 313–314
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 61
Hendrix, Jimi, 34
Henriquez, Daniela (daughter of Martha), 159
Henriquez, Martha, 159–161
Hesse, Herman, 56
Hirschman, Jack, 67
Hitler, Adolf, 53, 61
Holcomb, Julie, 77
Homo et Natura (Venezuela), 283, 284, 290
Honduras, 5, 84, 163–164, 173, 317, 348 n1
Hotel Moderno (Honduras), 85–86
Hotel Odeon (Venezuela), 246
HCOB (House Church of Berkeley), 52, 53–55, 60, 61, 64, 87
House on the Way (Holy Redeemer), 86, 87, 92, 95
Hutterian Brethren, 56
IIRSA (Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure of South America), 284, 286–287, 289, 347 n1
Industrial Worker, 107
Inkworks, 100, 104, 119
Interamerican Development Bank, 284, 287
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 232
IMF (International Monetary Fund), 265
INE (National Statistics Institute), 320
Iroquois Confederacy, 335
ISIS (Islamic State in Syria), 21
Isla del Sol, Bolivia, 156
Istúriz, Aristóbulo, 254
IWW (Industrial Workers of the World, “Wobblies”), 2, 105–107, 108, 122–125, 271
Japrería (Indigenous people), 285
Jaua, Elías, 303
Jesus, 17–18
Jiménez, Gen. Marcos Pérez, 232, 240, 265
Joachim di Fiores, 18, 61
Johnson, Lyndon, 188
Jung, Carl, 62
Karoly, Dave, 106, 123–124, 125, 133, 271
Kerry, John, 303
Kierkegaard, Soren, 53
King, Martin Luther, 28, 120
Kolakowski, Leszek, 184, 336–337
Korea, North, 189
KPFA, 88
Krawitz, Ari, 158, 159, 180
Kronstadt, 3
Kush, (of Cloudhouse) 67
L’Abri, Switzerland, 55
La Casa Tomada, 153
Lagwagon, 107
Lake Titicaca, 156
Lambrev, Garry, 67–68, 76
Landrieu, Senator Mary, 302
Lao Tzu, 73
La Realidad (Mexico), 120
Latin American Solidarity Committee, 319–320
Laura (Colombian student), 160–161
Laytonville, California, 100
LCR (Radical Cause), 237, 261, 323
Lebowitz, Michael, 279
Lee, Franz, 140, 145
Leehan, Pat, Fr., 87–88
Lenin, V.I., 169, 336
Lewis, C.S., 43
Libertario, El, 222, 248
Libya, 265
Lima, Peru, 156
Lindsey, Hal, 63
Line of March, 134
Little Red Book, The (Mao Zedong), 94
Livermore Action Group, 71
Lohrey, Steve, 60, 71
López, Leopoldo, 317, 321, 324
Lossky, Vladimir, 59
LS (Venezuela, Socialist League), 197, 283
Luis (companion to Mérida), 207–211
Lukács, Georg, 72
Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio, 6
Luna, Patricia, 115
Luther, Martin, 74–75
Luxemburg, Rosa, 68, 69
Lynd, Staughton, 338
M19 (Colombia, Movement 17, guerrilla), 159
Maccabean (revolts), 333
Maché River (Venezuela), 285
Machiques (Venezuela), 288, 292
Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America, The, 276
Maduro, Nicolás, 193, 196–197, 198, 200–201, 203, 204, 205, 210, 214, 217, 219, 225, 243, 247, 262, 273, 284, 293, 300, 307, 310, 312, 313, 315–317, 319, 322, 325, 327, 328, 340