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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 8, 2011

  Venezuela's Chavez: Voices in the night

By Rebecca Theodore The soft chimes of sorrow and delight haunt the chambers of the Venezuelan night. Straggling garments swish through her marble halls as Chavez lay fringed with fright from the celestial walls. The serene, majestic presence of the night hooves a mighty spell...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 27, 2011

  It's too early to write off Chávez

By David Roberts   There's been some perverse wishful thinking floating around in recent weeks on the part of some of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's detractors following his cancer operation in Cuba and ongoing chemotherapy. Although no...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 30, 2011

  Wikileaks: US Embassy Requests Funding for Anti-Chavez Groups

By Eva Golinger - Postcards from the Revolution :   The latest Wikileaks releases include cables sent from the US Embassy in Caracas to the State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Council, and other US entities, indicating requests for additional US...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 31, 2011

  Venezuelans Mobilize Against Obama's Sanctions

by Shamus Cooke:   CARACAS, May 30, 2011. Seeing is believing. Any hope that Venezuelans had in the Obama administration has been shattered against the recent U.S.-imposed sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned oil company, PDVSA. Two massive rallies were held in...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 26, 2011

  Venezuela and Colombia - The winds of war?

By Rebecca Theodore:   Behold! The tyrant of the Andes -- Hugo Chavez. Staring into the mirror of mirrors, he laments on his misery because the natural order within him is disturbed. A soul dominated by mad lust and egoism. Oppressed by his own fanatic and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 20, 2010

  Venezuela's Cultural Revolution

By Neil Fisher - The Times An ambitious system pays dividends for young musicians. It says a lot about the music scene in Caracas that within minutes of entering Venezuela's newest concert hall, I am already ignoring two world exclusives. Simon Rattle and Gustavo Dudamel, arguably the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 19, 2010

  ALBA: How Much of a Turn to the Left in Latin American Governance and Economic Policy?

By Christina DeFeo - Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA): The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) was established on December 14, 2004 by Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro. Tired of failed neo-liberal initiatives and Washington’s unfettered political leadership in Latin...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 11, 2010

  Venezuelan Inventiveness, Marxism, and Vernacular Revolutionary Traditions

By John Bellamy Foster - Monthly Review: I’m certain that this process is irreversible. This movement of change, of restructuring, of revolution, will not be stopped. —Hugo Chávez, 2002[1] El Caracazo In the eyes of much of the world, the year 1989 has come to stand for...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jul 2, 2010

  “To Have and To Be”: Building a Socialist-Feminist Economy in Venezuela

By Susan Spronk, Jeffery R. Webber - The Bullet, Lidice Navas: A long-time revolutionary activist, Lidice Navas is an important socialist-feminist leader within the PSUV and a candidate for the Latin American parliament, among her many other responsibilities. We met her at the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jun 20, 2010

  Extradition double standards

Cases involving Jamaican 'Dudus' Coke, Venezuela's Luis Posada and the USA BY RICKEY SINGH: WHILE Jamaica's security forces intensify their hunt for most wanted reputed dealer in illicit drugs and guns, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, for extradition to the USA, Venezuela has chosen to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 3, 2009

  Is there a margin for hypocrisy and lies?

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) IN its battle against the Cuban Revolution, the United States had its finest ally in the government of Venezuela: that of the illustrious Don Rómulo Betancourt Bello....... [view]

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