Steve Ellner

On September 28, a British Guardian reporter who interviewed me by phone published an article on the September 26 Venezuelan National Assembly elections titled 鈥淥pposition Gains Loosen Chavez鈥檚 Grip on Power.鈥 According to the article, I said the electoral results 鈥渟uggested the government should try to modify its radical discourse and accommodate the opposition, as long as it accepted the government鈥檚 legitimacy鈥.