Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by historian and returning guest Alexander Aviña. Alex is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on Substack, author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside, and a founding member of the new Anti-Imperial Scholars Collective (AISC). 

Alex and Kumars spend the hour digging into Alex's essay for the AISC's The Pen is My Machete blog, "Unity or Submission? The Great Yankee Risk," about the Trump administration's escalating plans for regime change—or regime collapse—in Venezuela. 

Follow Alex on Twitter @Alexander_Avina and find his latest long-form analysis at anti-imperialists.com, foreignexchanges.news, and more. 

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