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Chávez, spirituality and celebration: A conversation with Joel Suárez (Part II)
A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about how Chávez celebrated life.
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Chávez, spirituality and revolution: A conversation with Joel Suárez (Part I)
A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about Chávez as a revolutionary man of faith.
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Rising from the Ashes of the Blockade: The Río Cataniapo Commune (Part III)
How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.
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Amazonian Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ People and the Bolivarian process: Río Cataniapo Commune (Part II)
A Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ community in the Venezuelan Amazon discusses their culture and organization as well as the Indigenous peoples’ rights established in the 1999 constitution.
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‘The Commune is nothing new here’: The Rio Cataniapo Commune (Part I)
A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.
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Venezuela and the Ethics of Liberation: A conversation with Ximena González Broquen
The head of a prestigious research center talks about knowledge production in the Bolivarian Revolution.
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Culture, bread and revolution: A conversation with Natalia Molina
For the Caracas-based La Minka collective, culture and bread-baking go hand in hand with the project of making a socialist commune.
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Popular democracy at work at El Panal Commune and across Venezuela
The second National Popular Consultation saw Venezuelans choose community projects to be funded by the state.
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Born to win with Chávez: A women-led commune in the Venezuelan Llanos
Located on the outskirts of Biruaca, in Apure state, Nacidos para Vencer con Chávez [Born to Triumph with Chávez] is a women-led commune in a rural context that has a long history of patriarchal oppression. This fledgling commune seized upon Chávez’s idea as a way forward in difficult times, attempting to build community and increase production, while connecting with other communes through the Communard Union.
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The Commune, a living tradition for Pumé people in Venezuela
Coporo Indigena is an Indigenous community in Apure state that has resisted settler violence, displacement from their land… and now the U.S. blockade.
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Llaneros resist the blockade: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part II)
When production dropped, Venezuelans from the plains region turned to the commune to find solutions.
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Organizing ranchers in the Venezuelan Llanos: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part I)
How communards in the Venezuelan plains region produce, organize, and resist the impact of the U.S. blockade.
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On fascism and other maladies: A conversation with Luis Britto García
One of Venezuela’s most respected intellectuals talks about fascism and corruption scandals in the lead-up to the presidential elections.
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Countering the impact of the U.S. blockade: A conversation with Llanisca Lugo
A Cuban intellectual examines the consequences of the imperialist blockades on both Cuba and Venezuela.
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Open science and agroecology: A Conversation with Miguel Ángel Núñez
An independent researcher argues that Venezuela is undergoing an agroecological transition.
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Theater for Revolution: A conversation with Armando Carías
A playwright committed to social change talks about cultural production under the Bolivarian Process.
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Internationalist Doctors: A conversation with Vanessa Almeida and John Chikuike Ogbu
Two students from Venezuela’s ELAM medical school talk about becoming physicians in the service of the people.
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The dialectics of constituted and communal power: A conversation with Ángel Prado
The main spokesperson of El Maizal Commune is trying to put institutional power at the service of the commune.
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Vicissitudes of grassroots media: A conversation with Thierry Deronne (Part II)
A documentary filmmaker long associated with the Bolivarian Revolution talks about the history of its audiovisual production and the challenges ahead.
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Communication by and for the People: A conversation with Thierry Deronne (Part I)
A documentary filmmaker and teacher tells the story of Venezuela’s groundbreaking community media movement.