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Suggett: Venezuelans Vote Peacefully Over whether to Amend Constitution
Znet Article, February, 15 2009
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
Venezuelans Vote to Eliminate Two-Term Limit on All Elected Office.
Weisbrot: The Chavez Administration at 10 Years: The Economy and Social Indicators
Znet Article, February, 08 2009
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
This paper looks at some of the most important economic and social indicators during the 10 years of the Chávez administration in Venezuela, as well as the current economic expansion. It also looks at the current situation and challenges.
Dangl: Latin America Breaks Free: Washington no longer calls the shots
Znet Article, February, 03 2009
Ben Dangl
Dangl's ZSpace page
Five years ago, when Evo Morales was a rising political star as a congressman and coca farmer, I met him in his office in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He was drinking orange juice and sifting through the morning newspapers when I asked him about a meeting...
Gabriel: Venezuelan Students and Security Forces Clash Violently as Referendum Debate Intensifies
Znet Article, January, 31 2009
George Gabriel
Gabriel's ZSpace page
Violent student protests erupted again Tuesday in at least six major Venezuelan cities following a week of relative calm, intensifying the political debate over a proposed constitutional amendment that would abolish the two-term limit on elected o...
Suggett: Venezuelans March Peacefully and Reflect on Amendment, Chávez, and Socialism
Znet Article, January, 31 2009
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
Fifty-one years to the day after Venezuelans toppled the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, tens of thousands of Venezuelans held marches in Caracas and other major cities last Friday to either support or oppose a constitutional a...
Halling: Ready to Rumble: Referendum Facts & Law, Round II
Znet Article, January, 16 2009
Matt Halling
Halling's ZSpace page
Over and over again independent news outlets have had to step in and clean up misstatements, omissions, and outright lies the mainstream media reports about Venezuela and Hugo Chavez. Now that the National Assembly has officially approved holding...
Herman: Latin America & The Us
Video, January, 04 2009
Edward Herman
Herman's ZSpace page
The history of US influence in Latin America and anti-democratic US policy throughout the Global South.
Landau: Then and now, Venezuela and Cuba
Commentary, December, 21 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Watching Hugo Chavez orate on Venezuelan television rings old memory bells. "Socialism. Revolution, Patria." Words I heard in 1960-61 in Cuba.
Young: Testing the Propaganda Model
Znet Article, December, 19 2008
Kevin Young
Young's ZSpace page
A comparison of US press coverage of Venezuela and Colombia over the past decade, focusing on two sets of parallel political actions taken by the Venezuelan and Colombian governments.
Landau: Postcard from Venezuela
Commentary, December, 17 2008
Saul Landau
Landau's ZSpace page
Anti-Chavez sentiment, which inspired a failed military coup in 2002, has grown smarter. Newly elected opposition governor Capriles Radonsky participated in that coup, but now he has pledged to work with Chavez's government to confront national pr...
Gill: Venezuelan Local Elections – 23rd November 2008
Znet Article, December, 02 2008
Adam Gill
Gill's ZSpace page
The Venezuelan local elections were a highly anticipated event in Venezuela. PSUV activists and candidates and opposition party candidates (with notably fewer activists) fought hard during the month preceding the elections. In Merida, the capital ...
Suggett: United Socialist Party of Venezuela Wins 81% of Mayoral Offices in Elections
Znet Article, November, 26 2008
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
Candidates from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won 81% of the mayor’s offices and 77% of the governorships in Venezuela in last Sunday’s regional and local elections, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced in a press conference...
Albert: Venezuelan Direct Democracy: The case of the Consejos Comunales.
Znet Article, November, 18 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
In 2004, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez created a movement named the consejos comunales (communal councils) aimed at creating more responsive local governance by handing local budgetary and legislative power to the councils. This movement was se...
Lendman: Targeting Hugo Chavez
Znet Article, November, 14 2008
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
Since taking office in February 1999, America's dominant media have relentlessly attacked Chavez because of the good example he represents and threat it might spread in spite of scant chance it will in today's climate.
Wilpert: Smoke and Mirrors: An Analysis of Human Rights Watch’s Report on Venezuela
Znet Article, October, 18 2008
Gregory Wilpert
Wilpert's ZSpace page
President Chavez managed to hand Human Rights Watch a major public relations victory with his recent expulsion of its America’s Director José Miguel Vivanco and its Deputy Director Daniel Wilkinson...
Suggett: Chavez Clashes with Communist Party of Venezuela over Candidacies
Znet Article, October, 17 2008
James Suggett
Suggett's ZSpace page
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez threatened to "sweep off the map" the Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV) and fellow leftist party Patria Para Todos (PPT), both of which have launched alternative candidacies to those of Chávez's United Socialist Par...
Emersberger: Unanswered Phone Calls in Venezuela
Znet Article, October, 10 2008
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
In a press release about the report, HRW's Americas director, Jose Miguel Vivanco stated that "rather than advancing rights protections" the Chavez government has "moved in the opposite direction, sacrificing basic guarantees in pursuit of its own...
Chomsky: VII Social Summit for the Latin American and Caribbean Unity
Znet Article, September, 29 2008
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's ZSpace page
During the past decade, Latin America has become the most exciting region of the world. The dynamic has very largely flowed from right where you are meeting, in Caracas, with the election of a leftist president dedicated to using Venezuela’s rich ...
Lendman: New Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela
Znet Article, September, 27 2008
Stephen Lendman
Lendman's ZSpace page
US intervention is innovative and determined to regain control of Venezuela and its vast hydrocarbon resources, the largest by far in the hemisphere after Canada.
Albert: Politics In Venezuela
Znet Article, September, 21 2008
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An extensive interview about the polity in Venezuela, held with Julio Chavez, Mayor of Carora and prominent activist in all dimensions of the Bolivarian Revolution, especially concerning the Communal Councils.
