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Pearson: Venezuelan Government Aims to Register People in Extreme Poverty
Znet Article, November, 18 2011
Tamara Pearson
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The Venezuelan government announced that it will organise a national registration of people living in extreme poverty, and award small allowances to parents in extreme poverty with children
Pearson: 3.7 Million Families Registered in Venezuela’s Housing Mission
Znet Article, November, 12 2011
Tamara Pearson
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Of the 3,679,339 families who registered with the Great Housing Mission 41.28% of them had single mothers as the head of household
Pearson: New Venezuelan Mission Aims to Create 2.8 million Jobs in Eight Years
Znet Article, November, 09 2011
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
President Hugo Chavez announced a new Work and Knowledge Mission, which aims to create 2.8 million jobs over the next eight years
Pearson: Workers in Nationalised Companies in Venezuela Demand More Worker Control
Znet Article, October, 14 2011
Tamara Pearson
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1,800 workers protested, claiming the agreement they made with President Hugo Chavez last year was being violated
Pearson: Wikileaks Cables Reveal U.S. Embassy Works with Venezuelan Private Media
Znet Article, September, 07 2011
Tamara Pearson
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The U.S. ambassador to Venezuela met with Venezuelan private media companies El Nacional, Globovision, and the Cisneros Group, to discuss their political content
Pearson: Venezuelan People’s Militia Occupies Estate Once Used by Colombian Paramilitaries
Znet Article, July, 24 2011
Tamara Pearson
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Members of the Bolivarian militia have occupied and begun community projects on the Daktari estate, El Hatillo, which was once used to train Colombian paramilitaries
Pearson: Opposition Leader Capriles in Preliminary Hearing in Venezuelan Supreme Court
Znet Article, July, 23 2011
Tamara Pearson
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The Venezuelan Supreme Court is holding a preliminary hearing on merits against the opposition governor of Miranda state, Henrique Capriles
Pearson: Grassroots Media Movement Creates Its Own Law
Znet Article, June, 30 2011
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
The main aim of the law is to provide a legal framework for grassroots media and to regulate its use
Pearson: Venezuela and Brazil Deepen Strategic Cooperation
Znet Article, June, 11 2011
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
On Sunday President Hugo Chavez began his short tour of Latin America which includes stops in Brazil, Ecuador, and Cuba
Pearson: First National Meeting of Socialist Workers’ Councils
Znet Article, June, 03 2011
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
The workplace has to be linked to the community
Pearson: Venezuela’s Dreams and Demons
Znet Article, March, 19 2011
Tamara Pearson
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When seven year old children start to participate in the running of their school; from organising the morning breakfast, to helping the teachers out with activities, to organising excursions, and attending the weekly meeting of the school’s organi...
Pearson: New Venezuelan Ministry to be Run by Youth and Students
Znet Article, March, 17 2011
Tamara Pearson
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On Friday President Hugo Chavez announced the creation of the Ministry of Youth and Students which aims to address the needs of young people, and will be run by them.
Pearson: “We don’t Need Coca-Cola” Says Venezuela’s Chavez
Znet Article, February, 14 2011
Tamara Pearson
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In a nationally televised address on Friday to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the famous failed coup attempt led by himself, President Hugo Chavez expressed his support for the current workers’ conflict in a Venezuelan Coca-Cola plant.
Pearson: If Venezuela were Measured by the Majority
Znet Article, January, 03 2011
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
Venezuela has the worst economy in the world, according to a Newsweek study produced in August this year.
Pearson: Venezuelan National Assembly Passing “Popular Power” Package of Laws
Znet Article, December, 14 2010
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
Late last night Venezuela’s National Assembly approved the new Organic Law of Popular Power, and this afternoon it passed the Organic Law of Popular and Public Planning.
Pearson: Venezuelan Private Gas Company Workers Demand Nationalization
Znet Article, September, 15 2010
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
Private domestic gas company workers are demanding that their companies be nationalized and converted to worker and community control, alternative Venezuelan website Aporrea reported on Tuesday.
Pearson: Because intellectualism is for everyone and creativity is rebellious
Znet Article, July, 12 2010
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
(Venezuela) -- Karl Marx lay down on the couch, poured some cheap sherry into a glass jar, and balanced it carefully on his bare chest. A Nigerian oil worker sipped on palm wine as President Yar'Adua spoke of nationalism and country as though blow...
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...
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...
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 ...
Pearson: New Council to Incorporate Venezuelan Governors, Mayors, and Communal Council Representatives
Znet Article, February, 24 2010
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
Following the passage of the new Law of the Federal Government Council last week, pro-government governors around the country expressed their support of the formation of a Federal Government Council, which will consist of governors, mayors, member...
Pearson: Electric Workers of Mexico Take on Calderon
Znet Article, November, 03 2009
Tamara Pearson
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I met Jose Hernandez, a leader of the Mexican Union of Electricity workers (SME) at a metro station called Obrera (Worker), unsurprisingly located in a working class area of Mexico city, and from there we walked back to his house. “I'm very ti...
Pearson: Urban Land Committees of Venezuela Demand Law Reform
Znet Article, October, 19 2009
Tamara Pearson
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On Saturday Urban Land Committee spokespeople from across Venezuela met in Caracas to demand the approval of a reform to the Law of Regularisation of Urban Land Tenancy, which would transfer private housing to occupying families and recognise coll...
Pearson: Africa-South America Summit in Venezuela Cements South-South Collaboration
Znet Article, September, 27 2009
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
Creating a new Radio of the South, formalizing the Bank of the South, criticizing the make-up of the UN Security Council, and supporting Honduran President Manuel Zelaya were among the outcomes at the second Africa-South American Summit (ASA) that...
Pearson: United Socialist Party of Venezuela Restructures
Znet Article, August, 21 2009
Tamara Pearson
Pearson's ZSpace page
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), the party which supports President Hugo Chavez and which currently has almost 7 million registered members, is reorganising itself into smaller units called "patrols," in order to increase participat...
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.
Fuentes: Venezuela: Combatting Food Shortages
Znet Article, February, 08 2008
Federico Fuentes
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Luis Albonoz, who owns a small fruit and vegetable store in the same city, says his store hasn't been directly affected by the food shortages that have occurred throughout Venezuela, but told GLW that "it affects us as consumers. Food is necessary...
