MacIver News Service | Oct. 12, 2017
[Madison, Wis…] A Venezuelan student activist who has seen his home country ripped apart at the hands of socialist dictators slammed UW-Madison’s decision to honor a prominent apologist for leftist tyrants.Jorge Jraisatti, speaking at a Students For Liberty conference over the weekend, minced no words when asked about UW-Madison’s Havens Center bestowing on Tariq Ali its Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship.
Ali “has blood on his hands,” said Jraisatti. Ali, a leftist writer, has been a longtime supporter of the socialist regimes whose reins have led to waves of misery in Venezuela, including mass shortages of food and medicine, political persecution, economic ruin, starvation, and murder.