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About Federico Fuentes

Federico Fuentes is a regular contributor to the Australian-based newspaper Green Left Weekly, and his articles have appeared in Counterpunch, MR Online, Aporrea, Rebelión, America XXI, Comuna, and other publications and websites in both Spanish and English. He has co-authored several books, including three with Marta Harnecker on the new left in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Paraguay.
  • Uncle Sam / Venezuela Flag

    Prioritising anti-U.S. imperialism, Maduro’s Venezuela and the complexities of critical solidarity: An interview with Steve Ellner

    Originally published: Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal on November 1, 2024 (more by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal)  |

    Steve Ellner: “The basic contradiction of capitalism is at the point of production, the contradiction between the interests of the working class and those of capitalists.”

  • Michael A Lebowitz

    Michael Lebowitz, presente! (1937–2023)

    Originally published: Green Left on May 12, 2023 (more by Green Left)  |

    Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19.

  • El Maizal commune celebrated its 11th birthday last year. Photo: Katarina Kozarek/Venezuela Analysis

    ‘Commune or nothing’: New laws reignite old debates over communal power in Venezuela

    Originally published: Green Left on June 4, 2021 (more by Green Left)  |

    Venezuela’s National Assembly (AN) has approved two bills with the aim of further empowering the communal councils and communes that lie at the heart of the country’s project of communal power.

  • Voting in Venezuela's elections. Photo: PSUV Facebook page

    Socialist election win masks deeper problems

    Originally published: Green Left on December 11, 2020 (more by Green Left)  |

    With a majority of the opposition boycotting and an abstention rate of almost 70%, the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) obtained 69% of the vote in the country’s December 6 National Assembly (AN) elections.

  • Venezuela: Could rebellion in the ranks spell trouble for Maduro?

    Could rebellion in the ranks spell trouble for Maduro?

    Originally published: Green Left on October 18, 2020 (more by Green Left)  |

    Venezuela is no stranger to protests, registering thousands of demonstrations, rallies and strikes each year. As of October 1, about 7000 protests had occurred this year (roughly 25 a day), according to the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflicts.

  • Incidents of looting have occurred in some small- and medium-sized towns, such as Upata, Bolivar state.

    Mercenaries, pandemic and riots in Venezuela: A grassroots perspective

    Originally published: Green Left on May 8, 2020 by Atenea Jiménez (more by Green Left)  |

    Venezuela is confronting COVID-19 amid foreign sanctions and mercenary incursions. Complicating matters further is the explosive combination of deep recession and a nationwide lockdown, which has triggered incidents of looting and riots.

  • Venezuelans, and especially the elderly, have been encouraged to wear facemasks when out and about, and to try to stay home where possible. Photo: @jacoli44 / Twitter

    Bolivia vs Venezuela: COVID-19 response reveals true nature of governments

    Originally published: Green Left on April 30, 2020 (more by Green Left)  |

    Government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have put into sharp relief their true nature. This is perhaps no more evident than when we compare Bolivia and Venezuela.

  • Soldiers question an indigenous woman on the way to buy food. Photo: TeleSUR

    COVID-19 crisis: Bolivia’s movement towards socialism says #PutLivesFirst

    Originally published: Green Left on April 24, 2020 (more by Green Left)  |

    Given the exponentially rising death toll from COVID-19 and the devastating social and economic effects of brutal lockdowns, what could a humane and progressive response to the global pandemic look like?

  • Communities across Venezuela are producing face masks, with local communal councils and communes distributing them for free to families, particularly to those most in need. Photo: Páez Potencia/Facebook

    Combatting COVID-19 through solidarity

    Originally published: Green Left on April 1, 2020 (more by Green Left)  |

    Despite a deep economic recession, a profound political crisis and international sanctions that have ravaged its health sector, the South American nation of Venezuela is demonstrating that prioritising lives is possible in the battle against COVID-19.

  • A doctor and members of the local health committee visit a family in Alto de Lidice, Caracas, Venezuela. Photo- Gsus Garcia

    Community organisation key to fighting COVID-19

    Originally published: Green Left on April 9, 2020 (more by Green Left)  |

    While, by April 9, Brazil to its east had registered more than 16,000 cases and 822 deaths and Colombia to its west, had seen its tally climb above 2000 cases and 54 deaths, Venezuela had only recorded 167 cases and 9 deaths.

  • 2019 Pride march in Caracas. Photo- Venezuela Analysis.

    Amid crisis and sanctions, LGBTI activists continue to demand change

    Originally published: Green Left on July 5, 2019 (more by Green Left)  |

    One of the sectors hardest hit by Venezuela’s economic crisis is the nation’s LGBTI community. Lacking access to life-saving medicines and denied certain rights, activists say there is still much to be done within the revolution.

  • Marta Harnecker passed away on June 14.

    Marta Harnecker, presente!

    Originally published: Green Left on June 21, 2019 (more by Green Left)  |

    The international left has lost one of its most lucid intellectual, pedagogical educators and determined activists with the passing of Marta Harnecker on June 14, aged 82.

  • Altos de Lidice. Photo: Joe Montero.

    Venezuela’s crisis: a view from the Communes

    Originally published: Green Left on May 10, 2019 (more by Green Left)  |

    Federico Fuentes explores grassroots communal organisation, and the tension between popular power and sectors of the government.

  • Green Left Weekly journalist, Federico Fuentes with Cucaracho in the 23 de Jenero barrio in Caracas. Photo by Zuleima Vergel.

    Who are Venezuela’s colectivos?

    Originally published: Green Left on April 12, 2019 (more by Green Left)  |

    The media calls them armed thugs and US Senator Marco Rubio wants them put on the terrorist list, but who are Venezuela’s colectivos (collectives)? Green Left Weekly’s Federico Fuentes met with some of them to find out.

  • Venezuelan Chavistas in the streets supporting their revolution

    Venezuela: Chavistas gain upper hand, big challenges remain

    Originally published: teleSUR on August 15, 2017 (more by teleSUR)  |

    “I believe that failure to recognize the positive aspects of the Maduro presidency undermines efforts at international solidarity, which is very much needed at this moment of such intense hostility and threats on the part of European, North American and South American governments.”

  • A Venezuela solidarity meeting in Melbourne on July 29.

    Why Venezuela needs our solidarity

    Originally published: Green Left on August 5, 2017 (more by Green Left)  |

    Portrayed by the media as a peaceful, democratic movement, it is clear that what Venezuela is experiencing is a right-wing destabilisation campaign that not only seeks to remove Maduro but to roll back the important gains of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution.

  • Supporters of President Nicolas Maduro rally to support him while carrying pictures of late Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas, Venezuela, May 8, 2017.

    Standoff in Venezuela

    Originally published: Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal on March 12, 2017 (more by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal)  |

    Venezuela has been rocked in recent weeks by almost daily protests and counter-protests, as right-wing opponents of socialist President Nicolas Maduro seek to bring down his government.

  • Bolivia: Against “Green Imperialism”

    Federico Fuentes

    Statements, articles, letters, and petitions have been circulating on the Internet for the past month calling for an end to the “destruction of the Amazon.”  The target of these initiatives has not been transnational corporations or the powerful governments that back them, but the government of Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales. At the centre […]

  • Bolivia: US Worked to Divide Social Movements, WikiLeaks Shows

    Federico Fuentes

    WikiLeaks’ release of cables from the United States embassy in La Paz has shed light on its attempts to create divisions in the social and indigenous movements that make up the support base of Bolivia’s first indigenous-led government.  The cables prove the embassy sought to use the US government aid agency, USAID, to promote US […]

  • Separating Fact from Fantasy in Bolivia: A Review of Jeffery R. Webber’s From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia

    Federico Fuentes

    The election of Bolivia’s first indigenous president, on the back of a mass rebellion that overthrew successive governments, has stirred great interest in this small Andean nation.  Given that the Evo Morales government recently celebrated its 2000th day in power — a feat in its own right for a country that has had around 180 […]

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