Vasja Badalič is a researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of two books, For 100 Euros a Month: The Production System of Global Capitalism (in Slovenian only), and The Red Machinery: The Beat of Chávez’s Revolution (in Slovenian only). He has reported for all major Slovenian newspapers and magazines such as Delo, Dnevnik, and Mladina.