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Suggett: Venezuelan Prison Humanization Program Initiates New Educational Project
Znet Article, June, 17 2010
James Suggett
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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.
Pearson: Thousands of Venezuelan Communal Councils Adapt to Reformed Law
Znet Article, June, 08 2010
Tamara Pearson
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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...
Fuentes: Venezuela's Economic Woes?
Znet Article, May, 23 2010
Frederico Fuentes
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In recent weeks, local and international media have attacked the left-wing Venezuelan government over alleged “economic woes”.
Pearson: The Insidious Bureaucracy in Venezuela: Biggest Barrier to Social Change
Znet Article, May, 20 2010
Tamara Pearson
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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 ...
Pearson: Worker Self-Management Introduced in Primary Industry Companies in Guayana, Venezuela
Znet Article, May, 18 2010
Tamara Pearson
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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...
Emersberger: IACHR Rehashes Debunked Claims about Venezuela
Znet Article, May, 11 2010
Joe Emersberger
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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...
Weisbrot: Venezuela Is Not Greece
Znet Article, May, 07 2010
Mark Weisbrot
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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...
Chavez: The First Socialist International of the 21st Century
Znet Article, April, 28 2010
Julio Chavez
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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...
Fuentes: Venezuela: Workers’ control to solve power problems
Znet Article, April, 22 2010
Frederico Fuentes
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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...
Weisbrot: Venezuela's Recovery Depends on Economic Policy
Znet Article, April, 17 2010
Mark Weisbrot
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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 "...
Suggett: Fighting Corruption of Persecuting Political Prisoners in Venezuela?
Znet Article, April, 15 2010
James Suggett
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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 ...
Gollinger: Coup And Countercoup, Revolution!
Znet Article, April, 12 2010
Eva Gollinger
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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...
Gollinger: The Revolution Has Socialized and Advanced Sports in Venezuela
Znet Article, April, 06 2010
Eva Gollinger
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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.
Harnecker: "We Must Take Public Criticism into Account. Criticism Is Good and Should Help the Process"
Znet Article, April, 03 2010
Marta Harnecker
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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...
Fuentes: For Venezuela, There is No Going Back
Znet Article, March, 28 2010
Frederico Fuentes
Fuentes's ZSpace page
A Discussion with Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke
Fuentes: Venezuela: New moves to build people's power
Znet Article, March, 25 2010
Frederico Fuentes
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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.
Harnecker: Excessive Centralization Creates Inefficiency and Prevents Authentic Popular Protagonism
Znet Article, March, 21 2010
Marta Harnecker
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Popular protagonism becomes a mere slogan if people do not have the opportunity to make their opinions known and take decisions in areas where they participate: (geographic spaces, workplaces, educational establishments, interest groups). If the ...
Weisbrot: International Campaign Around Venezuela's Elections Has Begun
Znet Article, March, 19 2010
Mark Weisbrot
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Venezuela has an election for its National Assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media, although some will spill over into ...
Pearson: Women in the Venezuelan revolution: `We’re not invisible but invincible'
Znet Article, March, 18 2010
Tamara Pearson
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“I’m a woman with a new life since the Bolivarian Revolution knocked on my door”, said Pielrroc Montenegro, Maracaiban[i] by birth and Andean by tradition, with eyes full of nostalgia and gratitude. She described herself as a “dignified mother of ...
Gollinger: Permanent Aggression
Znet Article, March, 14 2010
Eva Gollinger
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The Empire will stop at nothing to find mechanisms and techniques to achieve its final objective, and we cannot disregard the possibility of a military conflict in the near future. If the US places Venezuela on the “terrorist list” this year, we c...
