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About Cira Pascual Marquina

Cira Pascual Marquina is Political Science Professor at the Universidad de Bolivariana de Venezuela in Caracas and is staff writer for Venezuelanalysis.com.
  • Albanys Montilla (Venezuelanalysis)

    ‘We’re building a new way of life’: A conversation with National Assembly candidate Albanys Montilla

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on May 24, 2025 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    The Venezuelan youth has faced special hardships under the U.S. blockade. The new parliament could help.

  • Alejandra Laprea is a popular feminist from Venezuela. (Venezuenanalysis)

    Feminism and revolution: A conversation with Alejandra Laprea

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on March 7, 2025 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    Despite many obstacles, popular feminism is advancing grassroots struggles in Venezuela.

  • Nereo López Pérez

    Organization and Production: The 4F Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ Commune (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on February 28, 2025 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    Under the auspices of the Bolivarian Revolution’s call for people’s power, a self-organized Indigenous commune looks for state support to enhance its traditional production methods.

  • A Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ youth (Rome Arrieche)

    Descendents of Cacique Ähuänumä: The 4F Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ Commune (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on February 23, 2025 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    An Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon that builds on Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ and other traditions.

  • Cira Pascual Marquina (Venezuelanalysis)

    In Venezuela, the commune is not just a utopia: A conversation with Cira Pascual Marquina

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on February 7, 2025 by Belsis Isabel Rodríguez Carballo and Fernando Luis Rojas (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.

  • Since the blockade began to be felt, fisherfolk have had many challenges in their daily life.

    The Ayacucho Commune: The impact of the U.S. blockade on Amazonian Fisherfolk (Part III)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on January 31, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Communards living by the Orinoco River talk about the impact of U.S. sanctions on their work and lives.

  • Mending the nets in a collective shelter. (Rome Arrieche)

    The Ayacucho Commune: Fisherfolk and their cooperative practices (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on January 24, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Venezuelan communards on the Orinoco River talk about their organizing processes in recent years.

  • Fisher people’s workdays are long. (Rome Arrieche)

    The Ayacucho Commune: A fishing community on the Orinoco (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on January 17, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    As part of VA’s Communal Resistance series, fisherfolk explain the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.

  • Hernán Vargas (Venezuelanalysis)

    Alba Movements and the Bolivarian Revolution

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on January 12, 2025 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    With President Maduro’s third term about to begin, we discuss an organizational network that promotes continental integration from below.

  • Joel Suárez (Part II)

    Chávez, spirituality and celebration: A conversation with Joel Suárez (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on December 20, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about how Chávez celebrated life.

  • Joel Suárez (Venezuelanalysis)

    Chávez, spirituality and revolution: A conversation with Joel Suárez (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on December 13, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about Chávez as a revolutionary man of faith.

  • Casabe is baked on a budare (Rome Arrieche)

    Rising from the Ashes of the Blockade: The Río Cataniapo Commune (Part III)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on November 8, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.

  • Río Cataniapo Commune (Part II)

    Amazonian Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ People and the Bolivarian process: Río Cataniapo Commune (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on October 25, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ community in the Venezuelan Amazon discusses their culture and organization as well as the Indigenous peoples’ rights established in the 1999 constitution.

  • Las Pavas inhabitants in the Cataniapo River. (Rome Arrieche)

    ‘The Commune is nothing new here’: The Rio Cataniapo Commune (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on October 18, 2024 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.

  • Ximena González Broquen

    Venezuela and the Ethics of Liberation: A conversation with Ximena González Broquen

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on September 20, 2024 by Cira Pascual Marquina (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    The head of a prestigious research center talks about knowledge production in the Bolivarian Revolution.

  • Natalia Molina (Venezuelanalysis)

    Culture, bread and revolution: A conversation with Natalia Molina

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on September 6, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    For the Caracas-based La Minka collective, culture and bread-baking go hand in hand with the project of making a socialist commune.

  • A gallery report of the National Popular Consultation at El Panal Commune. (Rome Arrieche)

    Popular democracy at work at El Panal Commune and across Venezuela

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on August 26, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    The second National Popular Consultation saw Venezuelans choose community projects to be funded by the state.

  • Nacidos para Vencer con Chávez [Born to Triumph with Chávez]

    Born to win with Chávez: A women-led commune in the Venezuelan Llanos

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on July 12, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    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.

  • The Pumé people of Coporo Indígena have decided to embrace modernity in their own terms. (Rome Arrieche)

    The Commune, a living tradition for Pumé people in Venezuela

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on July 5, 2024 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    Coporo Indigena is an Indigenous community in Apure state that has resisted settler violence, displacement from their land… and now the U.S. blockade.

  • The Pancha Vásquez Commune, in the Rómulo Gallegos municipality, covers some 84 thousand hectares. That land is distributed among 1200 families, most of them small to mid-sized ranchers. (Rome Arrieche)

    Llaneros resist the blockade: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on May 31, 2024 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    When production dropped, Venezuelans from the plains region turned to the commune to find solutions.

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