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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.
  • 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.

  • Milk production is an important part of the economy at the Pancha Vásquez Commune. (Rome Arrieche)

    Organizing ranchers in the Venezuelan Llanos: The Pancha Vásquez Commune (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on May 24, 2024 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    How communards in the Venezuelan plains region produce, organize, and resist the impact of the U.S. blockade.

  • The 2017 guarimbas were extremely violent. Top right: Orlando Figuera was burnt alive by a fascist mob on July 4, 2017. (Archives)

    On fascism and other maladies: A conversation with Luis Britto García

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on May 10, 2024 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    One of Venezuela’s most respected intellectuals talks about fascism and corruption scandals in the lead-up to the presidential elections.

  • Llanisca Lugo is a psychologist and popular educator. She serves as a Representative in Cuba's Popular Power National Assembly and as the International Solidarity Coordinator at the Martin Luther King Center. (Venezuelanalysis)

    Countering the impact of the U.S. blockade: A conversation with Llanisca Lugo

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on May 3, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A Cuban intellectual examines the consequences of the imperialist blockades on both Cuba and Venezuela.

  • Miguel Ángel Núñez (Venezuelanalysis)

    Open science and agroecology: A Conversation with Miguel Ángel Núñez

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

    An independent researcher argues that Venezuela is undergoing an agroecological transition.

  • Armando Carías (Venezuelanalysis)

    Theater for Revolution: A conversation with Armando Carías

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on March 22, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A playwright committed to social change talks about cultural production under the Bolivarian Process.

  • Vanessa Almeida is the main spokesperson for ELAM students. John Chikuike Ogbu is the deputy spokesperson. (Venezuelanalysis)

    Internationalist Doctors: A conversation with Vanessa Almeida and John Chikuike Ogbu

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on March 1, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Two students from Venezuela’s ELAM medical school talk about becoming physicians in the service of the people.

  • Ángel Prado (Venezuelanalysis)

    The dialectics of constituted and communal power: A conversation with Ángel Prado

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on January 19, 2024 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    The main spokesperson of El Maizal Commune is trying to put institutional power at the service of the commune.

  • Thierry Deronne (Venezuelanalysis)

    Vicissitudes of grassroots media: A conversation with Thierry Deronne (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on January 12, 2024 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    A documentary filmmaker long associated with the Bolivarian Revolution talks about the history of its audiovisual production and the challenges ahead.

  • Thierry Deronne (Venezuelanalysis)

    Communication by and for the People: A conversation with Thierry Deronne (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on January 5, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A documentary filmmaker and teacher tells the story of Venezuela’s groundbreaking community media movement.

  • A Gavidia landscape and campesino home. (Voces Urgentes)

    Growing native potatoes in synergy with the land and its people

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on October 21, 2023 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    Campesinos high up in the beautiful Andean valley of Gavidia are working to preserve the native potato and the way of life that goes with it.

  • Chris Gilbert (Monthly Review Press)

    The commune is a comprehensive reworking of social relations: A conversation with Chris Gilbert

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on October 13, 2023 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    A new book exploring the theory, practice and history of socialist commune building in Venezuela.

  • A CEBISA lab researcher and PROINPA associate. (Voces Urgentes)

    Campesinos as Scientists: PROINPA Combats seed dependency

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on September 23, 2023 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    PROINPA is a grassroots campesino organization promoting food sovereignty, endogenous seed production, and an agroecological transition.

  • Ramón Grosfoguel (Venezuelanalysis)

    Venezuela, the decolonial alternative: A conversation with Ramón Grosfoguel (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on August 4, 2023 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    A distinguished author from the decolonial tradition discusses the relationship between colonialism and imperialism.

  • Judith Valencia (Venezuelanalysis)

    Chávez, UNASUR and the end of unipolarity: A conversation with Judith Valencia

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on June 9, 2023 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    The Venezuelan researcher offers her reflections on Chávez’s geopolitics and the reactivation of the Union of South American Nations.

  • Voces Urgentes

    Food for Thought: Pueblo a Pueblo Promotes Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part IV)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on June 2, 2023 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    An innovative form of food distribution has been key for schools and communes.

  • Agroecology for Life: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty (Part III)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    A grassroots organization is building a new model for the production and distribution of food based on mutuality.

  • Pueblo a Pueblo [People to People]

    Circumventing the Blockade: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on May 19, 2023 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.

  • A campesino plows the land with animal traction in Carache, the epicenter of Pueblo a Pueblo. (Venezuelanalysis)

    Venezuela: Food is not a commodity, it’s a human right: Pueblo a Pueblo Builds Food Sovereignty (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on May 14, 2023 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    An organization that brings together rural producers with urban consumers breaks with the dictates of the market.

  • Tony Boza (Venezuelanalysis)

    Chávez built a new economy: A conversation with Tony Boza (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelanalysis.com on February 11, 2023 (more by Venezuelanalysis.com)  |

    An economist and National Assembly member reflects on the economic transformations that Chávez promoted.

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