Secret Agent for International Maoism: José Venturelli, Chinese Informal Diplomacy and Latin American Maoism

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Abstract

The Chilean artist José Venturelli was a supporter of Maoist China. This article, a brief political biography of Venturelli, shows how he acted on behalf of the People’s Republic of China’s informal diplomacy among Latin Americans and worked to promote Maoist politics among Latin American revolutionaries. The article also advances the hypothesis that Venturelli represents an archetype of the sort of international actor who was key to the globalization of revolutionary politics during the long 1960s.

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Matthew Rothwell:

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Matthew Rothwell is the author of Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese Revolution in Latin America (Routledge, 2013). He teaches in the University of Colorado at Denver’s program at China Agricultural University in Beijing. The website for his academic work can be found at matthewrothwell.net. His current research project involves the Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros and his political influence on other Latin American communist artists.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): RA

Title: Radical Americas

Publisher: UCL Press

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Publication date (Electronic): December 2016

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

Article

DOI: 10.14324/111.444.ra.2016.v1.1.005

SO-VID: 577c982e-fc4e-48ef-8577-c746ed58a066

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology,Political science,Anglo-American studies,Americas,Cultural studies,History

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Sociology, Political science, Anglo-American studies, Americas, Cultural studies, History

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