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- Sunday, Aug 29, 2010
Video Greg Wilpert on relations between the two countries.... -
- Thursday, Aug 19, 2010
ZNet Article While President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and the new President of Colombia, Manuel Santos met in Santa Marta, Colombia last Tuesday and agreed to normalize relations after a fierce diplomatic fight, there are no indications that such détente is in... -
- Thursday, Jul 29, 2010
ZNet Article In March I wrote about the Obama administration's contribution (March 18) to the election campaign under way in Venezuela, where voters will choose a new National Assembly in September. I predicted that certain things would happen before September... -
- Wednesday, Jul 28, 2010
Commentary President Chavez ordered maximum alert on Venezuela’s border with Colombia after the Uribe administration made grave accusations against Venezuela claiming the Chavez government harbors terrorists and terrorist training camps. -
- Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010
ZNet Article Venezuela’s principal union federation, the National Union of Workers (UNETE), recently circulated a document calling for broader nationalizations, a revolutionary labor law, and a radical shift toward a democratic, worker-led management model to ... -
- Sunday, Jul 18, 2010
ZNet Article It's nice when you make a documentary about how the major media outlets misrepresent reality, and the media response to the film proves your point. In fact, the media's response to Oliver Stone's "South of the Border," which I wrote with Tariq Ali... -
- Friday, Jul 16, 2010
Commentary US State Department documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) evidence more than $4 million USD in funding to journalists and private media in Venezuela during the last three years. This funding is part of the more than $4... -
- Tuesday, Jul 06, 2010
Commentary The US government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the Hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, the Justice Department brushed off the request. -
- Thursday, Jul 01, 2010
Commentary It is truly amazing how a long-time Latin America correspondent who accuses Oliver Stone’s recently released documentary “South of the Border” of “mistakes, misstatements and missing details,” manages to get practically every single statement of h... -
- Saturday, Jun 26, 2010
ZNet Article On April 13, 2002, an event occurred in Venezuela which was as world-historical for South America as the fall of the Berlin Wall was for Eastern Europe: a U.S.-backed coup against the democratically-elected government of Venezuela collapsed. The B... -
- Thursday, Jun 24, 2010
ZNet Article The Venezuelan National Assembly passed a reform to the Land Law on Tuesday night which increases the ability of landless tenant farmers to obtain land and strengthens the state’s power to convert large, idle estates into food producers. -
- Tuesday, Jun 22, 2010
Commentary A revealing report published in May 2010 by the FRIDE Institute, a Spanish think tank, prepared with funding from the World Movement for Democracy (a project of the National Endowment for Democracy “NED”), has disclosed that international agencies... -
- Saturday, Jun 19, 2010
ZNet Article During the 40th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Tuesday, Venezuela reaffirmed its opposition to the re-entry of Honduras to the OAS as long as the regime led by Porfirio Lobo, which came to power through a military... -
- Friday, Jun 18, 2010
ZNet Article An account of a project involving Venezuela and an outline of questions for President Hugo Chavez -
- Thursday, Jun 17, 2010
ZNet Article University professors and experts in corrections and rehabilitation will offer educational programs for both the staff and prisoners in Venezuela’s jails as part of the latest step forward in the country’s four year-old prison humanization program. -
- Tuesday, Jun 08, 2010
ZNet Article 7,244 communal councils received information and training this week in how to adapt themselves to the Law of Communal Councils that was reformed in November last year, according to the Foundation for Development and Promotion of Communal Power (Fu... -
- Sunday, May 23, 2010
ZNet Article In recent weeks, local and international media have attacked the left-wing Venezuelan government over alleged “economic woes”. -
- Thursday, May 20, 2010
ZNet Article Venezuela’s large bureaucracy prevents people, collectively and individually, from controlling their lives and achieving what they are trying to achieve as movements or communities, by requiring exhausting amounts of documents and waiting, by not ... -
- Tuesday, May 18, 2010
ZNet Article President Hugo Chavez swore in a range of directors of state owned companies that comprise the Venezuelan Corporation of Guayana (CVG). The directors were chosen by workers’ working groups and ratified by the president. Chavez also announced a ran... -
- Tuesday, May 11, 2010
ZNet Article In December of 2009, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) put out a 300-page report entitled “Democracy and Human Rights in Venezuela.” The report depicts human rights conditions in Venezuela as having deteriorated significantly s... -
- Friday, May 07, 2010
ZNet Article With Venezuela's economy having contracted last year (as did the vast majority of economies in the Western Hemisphere), the economy suffering from electricity shortages, and the value of domestic currency having recently fallen sharply in the para... -
- Wednesday, Apr 28, 2010
ZNet Article During the recently concluded five-month extraordinary congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Kiraz Janicke & Federico Fuentes had the opportunity to discuss President Hugo Chavez’s proposal to form a Fifth Socialist International, w... -
- Thursday, Apr 22, 2010
ZNet Article Following nation-wide assemblies involving more than 10 000 electricity workers to collectively discuss solutions to the sector's problems, 600 delegates gathered in Caracas on April 8-9. The delegates presented Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wi... -
- Saturday, Apr 17, 2010
ZNet Article Throughout Venezuela's record-breaking economic expansion, the government's opponents - which includes most of the international media as well as Washington - were "crying, waiting, hoping," as the rock and roll legend Buddy Holly once sang. The "... -
- Thursday, Apr 15, 2010
ZNet Article As Venezuela heads toward its fifteenth internationally monitored election in ten years, the international media assault against the democratically-elected Chavez government is intensifying. On April 3rd, New York Times correspondent Simon Romero ... -
- Monday, Apr 12, 2010
ZNet Article
In just 47 hours, a coup d’etat ousted President Chavez and a countercoup returned him to power, in an extraordinary showing of the will and determination of a dignified people on a revolutionary path with no return. The mass media played a ma... -
- Tuesday, Apr 06, 2010
ZNet Article Women’s participation has increased dramatically in Venezuelan sports during the past decade, as has Venezuela’s success in the international arena. The Bolivarian Revolution has treated sports as an important aspect of advancing human development. -
- Saturday, Apr 03, 2010
ZNet Article 20 years ago, when the Berlin Wall fell, there was no revolution foreseeable on the horizon. However, it didn't take long before a process began to emerge in Latin America with Hugo Chávez. We have gone on to form governments with anti-neolibera... -
- Sunday, Mar 28, 2010
ZNet Article A Discussion with Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke -
- Thursday, Mar 25, 2010
ZNet Article The Venezuelan government has launched a number of initiatives in recent weeks aimed to tackle threats to the revolutionary process including from elements within the pro-Chavez camp that seek to undermine plans to deepen the revolution. - All Newest ZNet
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Venezuela People's PowerNew Forms of Popular Power in Venezuela Excerpted from a full length discussion between Michael Albert and Vannia Lara conducted in April 2009. View Large Recent ZMag
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- Tuesday, Dec 01, 2009
ZMag Article Two new books on political transformations in the south -
- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
ZMag Article Noam Chomsky's talk in Caracas, Venezuela, August 29 -
- Sunday, Apr 01, 2007
ZMag Article P
. Sainath is an award-winning
journalist who writes about India. He is Rural Affairs editor of
the
Hindu
, one of India’s most important newspapers.
“I cover the people who... -
- Thursday, Mar 01, 2007
ZMag Article T
he U.S. establishment takes
a “pragmatic” view of the merits of elections, with approval
or disapproval depending on how well it “works,” as perceived
by the dominant inte... -
- Monday, Jan 01, 2007
ZMag Article S
eptember 21, 2006 marked the 30th anniversary of the first car bomb ever
to explode on U.S. soil. It exploded in the streets of Washington, DC killing
the former Chilean ambassador to the United Nations, Orla... -
- Wednesday, Mar 01, 2006
ZMag Article T
he planning committee of
the World Social Forum (WSF) 2005 decided that 2006 would be a year
of “polycentric” (decentralized) meetings around the world.
Gatherings were to be held in ... ZMag Article T
ariq Ali was born in Lahore,
then a part of British-ruled India, now in Pakistan. For many years
he has been based in London where he is an editor of New Left Review.
He’s written more than... -
- Friday, Jul 01, 2005
ZMag Article O
ver
one million people filled the streets along the historic route of
Mexican social protest on May Day, marching from the Angel of Independence
to the Zocalo and then filling the enormous square at the city’s
... - All Recent ZMag
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- Tuesday, Jul 27, 2010
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- Monday, Dec 21, 2009
Blog Post Eva Golinger article. US predator drone flies over Venezuela which is now on high alert. -
- Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009
Blog Post Article by Eva Golinger about Moore's offensive and insulting lies about his meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. -
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- Monday, Aug 24, 2009
Blog Post An email to a friend and now to the world! -
- Friday, Apr 10, 2009
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