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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 worldwide struggle against fascism: a conversation with Nestor Kohan (Part 2)

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    An important Latin American political theorist argues that right-wing “internationalism” requires a leftist response that also reaches beyond national boundaries.

  • Juan Contreras. (Venezuelanalysis)

    Venezuela’s missile crisis: a conversation with Juan Contreras

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    A grassroots leader from the 23 de Enero barrio in Caracas looks at the historical forces operating behind the showdown unfolding right now in the Bolivarian Republic.

  • Luis Britto Garcia.

    Either Washington or Venezuela, savage capitalism or socialism

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on February 6, 2019 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Luis Britto Garcia is perhaps Venezuela’s most highly regarded public intellectual. A firm supporter of the Bolivarian Process, he has written numerous plays, novels, historical investigations and film scripts and is also an incisive commentator on politics in the region.

  • Jessica Dos Santos is a journalist and university professor in Caracas. (Venezuelanalysis)

    Everyday life in besieged Venezuela

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    A young author presents intimate snapshots of ordinary life as it is lived by millions of Venezuelans during a grueling crisis fueled by deadly U.S. sanctions and coup efforts.

  • What’s been learned won’t be easily forgotten

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    A young Venezuelan intellectual argues that the revolutionary potential of Chavismo may be in abeyance, but it could come back to life again.

  • Luis Enrique Gavazut, independent researcher and member of the Presidential Observatory for the Economy. (Venezuelanalysis)

    How to get Venezuela’s economy going again

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    In this interview with Venezuelanalysis, an independent researcher speaks frankly about the roots of the country’s economic crisis and outlines a series of policies to revert it.

  • Sergio Requena of the Productive Workers’ Army. (Ejército Productivo Obrero)

    Building ‘Patria’

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    In this interview with Venezuelanalysis, we talk to a central figure in a voluntary workers’ initiative to jumpstart industrial plants, both state‐owned and worker‐controlled.

  • Eduardo Rothe, fisherman and philosopher. (Venezuelanalysis)

    Chavez and the twilight of capitalism

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    A philosopher, fisherman and former member of the Situationist International reflects on the Bolivarian Revolution.

  • Gioconda Mota, longtime activist for women’s rights and persons with disabilities’ rights, and co‐coordinator of the “Desde Nosotras” (Amongst Us) report on women’s human rights in Venezuela. (Desafío Constituyente)

    Women and the crisis in Venezuela

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    A new report on women’s human rights in Venezuela reveals the uneven advances of the Bolivarian Process in this area.

  • Julio Escalona, a longtime left militant and university professor, is now a member of the National Constitutive Assembly. (Globovision)

    Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly and the rise of fascism

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    A former guerrilla and active member of the National Constituent Assembly talks with VA about the class struggle in the countryside and the looming menace of the ultra-right in Brazil.

  • Robert Longa of the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force and El Panal Commune. (Venezuelanalysis)

    The commune and 21st century socialism: A conversation with Robert Longa of El Panal Commune

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    In this interview, VA talks with a key cadre of the Alexis Vive Patriotic Force, an organization based in the 23 Enero barrio that has worked to build Venezuela’s most emblematic urban commune.

  • Report from Havana: Talking With the FARC-EP’s Peace Commission

    Cira Pascual Marquina

    If there has ever been any question that the FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) is essentially a political organization — one that took up arms guided by a political vision and will abandon them when a new political strategy leads them to do so — that question may be forever laid to rest by […]

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