In Caracas, Venezuela, Max Blumenthal has a wide-ranging chat with Danny Shaw, a professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies who has lived in the Dominican Republican, Haiti, and Brazil. They discuss revolutionary anti-imperialist movements, life in poor neighborhoods in the Bronx, Malcolm X’s internationalist legacy, identity politics, differences of whiteness in Latin America, problems with the US left, and humanity’s age-old question: did Jesus Christ do drugs?

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Follow Danny Shaw on Twitter at twitter.com/dannyshawcuny

Follow Danny on Instagram at instagram.com/dannyshawcuny

Danny Shaw’s book “The Saints of Santo Domingo: Dominican Resistance in the Age of Neocolonialism

Danny’s book “365 Days of Resistance: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants