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, by FUENTES Federico
Venezuelan Confederation of Industries president Luigi Pisella (left) said President Nicolás Maduro had informed his organisation of plans to fully or partially privatise ‘between 500 and 600 companies’. Photo: conindustria.org
Speculation of more privatisations by the Nicolás Maduro (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, ITURRIZA LOPEZ Reinaldo Antonio
Writer, activist, sociologist and director of the Centre for Studies for Socialist Democracy Reinaldo Antonio Iturriza López discusses the competing — and inadequate — narratives surrounding Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election in this interview conducted by Federico Fuentes for LINKS (…)
, by HETLAND Gabriel
“If the left is to counter [the right wing] narrative, and defend the real gains of Chavismo during the 2000s and 2010s, it must give up on consoling fantasies and take a clear-eyed look at the country’s degeneration. That means resisting apologism for Maduro.”
Venezuelan President Nicolás (…)
, by BONILLA MOLINA Luis , CARVALHAES Ana C.
Unlike what has been happening for the last 25 years in Venezuela’s – and there have been dozens since Hugo Chávez’s victory in 1998 – this time, after the 28 July vote, the broad Latin American left, including the entire base of ‘progressivism’, has split from top to bottom.
A smaller and (…)
, by BRACHO Yoletty
Yoletty Bracho, a Venezuelan activist and researcher living in France, has devoted her research to the relationship between popular neighbourhood organisations and the state born from the Bolivarian revolution. Present in Venezuela in the weeks leading up to the elections, she was able to meet (…)
Protests erupted after the July 28 presidential election as soon as the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that Nicolás Maduro had won another six-year term. Media reports indicate that as of July 31, 2024, dozens of protesters have died and more than a thousand have been arrested.
In (…)
, by VELASCO Alejandro
If revolution is to win again in Venezuela, its backers at home and abroad must first recognize that they lost.
At a glance, it seems all too familiar. Another hotly contested election in Venezuela, another victory for the long-besieged Chavista government, another round of fraud allegations (…)
, by BONILLA MOLINA Luis
Venezuela is a nuisance for western and Latin American elites. And this is because it dared to propose a route different from neoliberal capitalism at a time when the triumph of this one, single thought was announced. The elites - local and foreign - have done their best to destroy such an (…)
, by GUILLAUDAT Patrick
On 6 December 2020, parliamentary elections were held to choose the deputies of Venezuela’s Asemblea Nacional (National Assembly - AN). Since 2015, the AN has been mainly composed of opposition MPs following the defeat of the government coalition, the Gran Polo Patriotico (Great Patriotic Pole - (…)
, by GILBERT David
The mortality rate among indigenous people is twice that of the rest of the population.
Cover: A woman wearing a mask that reads in Portuguese “Indigenous Lives Matter,” cries during the funeral of Chief Messias Martins Moreira, 53, of the Kokama ethnic group, who died of Covid-19, at Parque (…)
, by HEREDIA Omar Vázquez, Venezuelan Workers Solidarity
Omar Vázquez Heredia is a member of the Partido Socialismo y Libertad in Venezuela, and a professor at the Central University of Venezuela. He is the author of the book ‘La Cuestión Chavista. Estado Extractivista y Nación Petrolera’, the result of his PhD studies, where he presents a critical (…)
, by GONZALES Aurora, PEREZ BORGES Stalin
As of May 15, Venezuela is reporting 455 coronavirus infections and just 10 Covid-19 deaths. However, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in neighboring Columbia and (especially) Brazil are trapped in pandemic hotspots. Thus far, President Nicolás Maduro’s government has maintained an (…)
, by Solidarity (USA)
Donald Trump’s Bay of Pigs?
THE U.S.-SPONSORED COUP in Venezuela appears to have fizzled on the first day. But the country remains on a knife-edge. A failure of this coup would leave the Trump administration facing the prospect of its own “Bay of Pigs”-type debacle — when John F. Kennedy in (…)
, by LANDER Edgardo, PERIES Sharmini
Prominent Venezuelan sociologist and intellectual Edgardo Lander says while it’s correct to oppose U.S. intervention and interference, Left media should not minimize the responsibility of the Maduro government for the economic crisis
Edgardo Lander is professor emeritus at the Central (…)
, by Fourth International
Statement adopted by the International Committee of the Fourth International by unanimiy minus one abstention.
In one more of his war-media machinations in the service of the great U.S. capital, Donald Trump is using the new political balance of forces in Latin America – where the pendulum (…)
, by Fourth International
Statement adopted unanimously by the International Committee of the Fourth International.
Since 12 February, the electronic site of news and popular debates Aporrea.org has been blocked for access inside Venezuela by the state company CANTV - Movilnet.
Aporrea is one of the most active (…)
, by HETLAND Gabriel
How should we respond to the fraught situation in Venezuela? The question has sparked heated debate on the Left, both in the US and around the world. The recent intensification of US efforts to remove Nicolás Maduro, by force if necessary, has lent that question renewed urgency.
There are no (…)
, by KATZ Claudio
The struggle for Venezuela will decide the destiny of Latin America, argues Claudio Katz. We must recognise global Right’s hypocrisy in its attempts to topple Maduro. But it doesn’t act alone: similar forces are alive inside a government that has failed to counteract economic collapse. (…)
, by HETLAND Gabriel
Venezuela is in crisis, and Trump’s saber-rattling is making things worse. Our response should be guided by three principles: non-interventionism, self-determination, and solidarity with the oppressed.
How should we respond to the fraught situation in Venezuela? The question has sparked heated (…)
, by NORTON Ben
The vast majority of Venezuelans oppose military intervention and US sanctions to try to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power, according to polling by the local firm Hinterlaces.
More than eight out of ten Venezuelans oppose international intervention, both military and non-military, in (…)
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