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Suggett: Between Unity and Pluralism
Znet Article, October, 17 2011
James Suggett
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The Venezuelan government announced numerous initiatives aimed at assisting and empowering indigenous communities
Suggett: Venezuelan University Law Creates Student Bill of Rights, “Democratizes” Higher Education
Znet Article, December, 26 2010
James Suggett
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As students in the United States and Europe protest against soaring tuition and lack of funding for public higher education, the Venezuelan National Assembly has passed an unprecedented law.
Suggett: Workers Rally to Support Venezuela’s Nationalization of Veneco
Znet Article, October, 14 2010
James Suggett
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Factory workers from the Venezuelan chemical and lubricant company Veneco held a demonstration Sunday night in Carabobo state to show their support for the company’s nationalization, which President Hugo Chavez announced last Sunday afternoon.
Suggett: Venezuelan Elections
Znet Article, September, 29 2010
James Suggett
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Socialists advance, opposition loses ground compared to 2000 elections.
Suggett: Venezuela Secures Electoral System as Venezuelans to Vote on Course of Bolivarian Revolution
Znet Article, September, 26 2010
James Suggett
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As the streets of Venezuela bustle with campaign-closing rallies, voters prepare to choose 165 National Assembly representatives in a nation-wide vote on Sunday that could either accelerate or put limits on the “Bolivarian Revolution” led by Presi...
Suggett: Venezuelan National Workers Union Calls for Greater Worker Control
Znet Article, July, 21 2010
James Suggett
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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 ...
Suggett: Venezuelan Land Law Reform Promises “Land for Those Who Work on It”
Znet Article, June, 24 2010
James Suggett
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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.
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 ...
Suggett: Venezuelan Education Law: Socialist Indoctrination or Liberatory Education?
Znet Article, August, 22 2009
James Suggett
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Venezuelan opposition activists allege that the new Education Law, which the National Assembly passed unanimously shortly after midnight on August 14th following an extended legislative session, is unconstitutional, anti-democratic, politicizes th...
Suggett: Post-Sexist Society
Znet Article, August, 05 2009
James Suggett
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This essay is an effort to look beyond the struggle to resist, critique, and understand sexist oppression, and articulate a revolutionary vision for specifically how we wish to structure a new society that nurtures and sustains healthy gender r...
Suggett: Venezuela’s Homemakers Union: An Interview with Founder and Coordinator Lizardi Prada
Znet Article, July, 12 2009
James Suggett
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In this interview Lizardi Prada gives insight into the fight for women's rights in the Venezuelan context. Prada speaks about the union's creation and day-to-day functioning, it's agenda for homemakers' rights, it's relationship to the Catholic Ch...
Suggett: Chávez Hosts TV Series of Socialist Theory
Znet Article, June, 17 2009
James Suggett
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On Thursday evening Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez hosted the first of what will be a series of special episodes of his weekly presidential talk show, "Hello, President." The focus of these episodes is the theory of socialist change, in contras...
Suggett: Human Rights and Police Reform in Venezuela: A Venezuelan Perspective
Znet Article, April, 17 2009
James Suggett
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Recent reports by Human Rights Watch and the U.S. State Department have put the issue of human rights in Venezuela under much international scrutiny. Seeking an experienced, nuanced, and Venezuelan perspective, Venezuelanalysis.com spoke with the ...
Suggett: President Chávez and Venezuela’s Socialist Elected Officials Meet to Discuss Political Strategy
Znet Article, March, 30 2009
James Suggett
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On Wednesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez convened state governors, city mayors, and legislators from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to discuss the next stage in the construction of “21st Century Socialism,†following two...
Suggett: Venezuelans Vote Peacefully Over whether to Amend Constitution
Znet Article, February, 15 2009
James Suggett
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Venezuelans Vote to Eliminate Two-Term Limit on All Elected Office.
Pulido: The Path of the Revolutionary Student Movement
Znet Article, February, 08 2009
Carmen Pulido
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In the university town of Mérida, Venezuela, student political organizations have had a significant presence at marches both for and against a proposed constitutional amendment that will eliminate the two-term limit on elected offices if it is ap...
Suggett: Venezuelans March Peacefully and Reflect on Amendment, Chávez, and Socialism
Znet Article, January, 31 2009
James Suggett
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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...
Suggett: Chavez Clashes with Communist Party of Venezuela over Candidacies
Znet Article, October, 17 2008
James Suggett
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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...
Suggett: South American Presidents Unite to Defend Bolivia Against Destabilization
Znet Article, September, 17 2008
James Suggett
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Mérida, September 16, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and the leaders of 11 other South American nations held an emergency meeting of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) in Santiago, Chile, Monday to form a ...
Suggett: Land Reform Conflict in Venezuela’s Strategic Water Source
Znet Article, August, 13 2008
James Suggett
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Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government’s land reform programs were attacked last Thursday by armed and masked men who, the farmers say, were hired by large estate owners in the area to cut short the changes heralde...
