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For Western Press, the only Coup in Venezuela is against Guaidó
The international corporate media have entered crisis mode following the replacement of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as head of the country’s National Assembly.
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Social program meets goal, delivers 3 million homes
The new goal of the social housing program is to deliver at least 500,000 new dwellings in 2020.
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The vanguard of Chavism has a woman’s face: A chronicle of their resistance in 2019
In the middle of the year, we Venezuelans received a visit from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michel Bachelet, on the occasion of meeting with the different political actors in the country to “evaluate” the complex economic and social environment brought about by the White House’s decision.
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In Commune: Pancha Vásquez
This chapter of “In Commune” explores the Pancha Vásquez Commune in Apure state, where communards are working hand in hand with local farmers to fight smuggling and speculation with autonomous barter systems and communal markets.
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Media wonder: Why can’t Venezuela be more like Bolivia?
Western corporate media outlets have often cried foul when foreign elections don’t go the way the U.S. empire wants them to, and find roundabout ways to label the violent attempts by vocal right-wing minorities to use military forces to overthrow leftist governments as “protests” rather than coups (FAIR.org, 5/16/18, 5/1/19).
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A letter to intellectuals who deride revolutions in the name of purity
The ‘stubborn class struggle’ inside the revolutionary process should provide someone who is not part of the revolutionary process itself to be sympathetic not to this or that policy of a government, but to the difficulty—and necessity—of the process itself.
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Weaponizing Venezuela’s ex-ruling elite
When we think “immigrants in America” we rarely consider those who are privileged and weaponized in service of American Empire.
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Neoliberalism, hell no!
Former Vice-President Elias Jaua looks at the current anti-neoliberal uprisings in Ecuador and Argentina through the lens of decades of similar struggle in Venezuela.
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USAID funds salaries of Venezuelan politicians as it doubles down on the coup
The payment of Mr. Guaidó’s representatives is a serious conflict of interest. Does the Guaidó team represent the Venezuelan people or the interests of the government that is paying their salaries? It is a point worth reiterating: a foreign politician is being paid by the United States to influence policy in the United States.
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Phony progressives follow Trump lead on Venezuela
So-called progressives sound just like Donald Trump when they describe Venezuela’s elected government as a “dictatorship,” said Nicholas Evan Ayala, co-editor of Anti-Conquista. “A lot of Democrats pretend to be anti-war, yet fail to see that every intervention they advocate follows a long history of US evil…leading to the deaths of millions of people,” said Ayala.
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Socialist feminism and the Communal State
Blanca Eekhout is the Minister of People’s Power for the Communes and Social Movements of Venezuela and a woman linked to revolutionary militancy long before President Hugo Chávez came to power, whose team she was part of.
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Grassroots Communication fights back! A conversation with Jessica Pernia
A founding member of Tatuy TV speaks about what it means to be a group of revolutionary journalists in hard times.
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How Venezuela defeated Washington’s coup attempt at the United Nations
An inside look at how Venezuelan diplomats stymied a US attempt to revoke their credentials at the UN and shatter their nation’s sovereignty.
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Cultural production in Revolutionary Venezuela: A conversation with Kael Abello
A key member of the ‘Comando Creativo’ artists’ collective reflects on how to make relevant art during a revolution.
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Reuters can’t find U.S. critics to question Amazon’s anti-Venezuela propaganda
A line from the trailer for Jack Ryan, an Amazon TV drama whose second season streams on November 1, is: A nuclear Venezuela…. You will not hear about it on the news, ’cause we’ll already be dead.
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Venezuela oil production continues decline as China cancels more shipments
Russian oil giant Rosneft blasted threats of U.S. sanctions as “unfair competition.”
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Venezuela: Despite U.S. sanctions Maduro delivers house number 2.8 million
As a part of Great Housing Mission Venezuela, the national program guarantees citizens’ access to adequate housing.
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New season of Amazon’s Jack Ryan focused on Venezuela denounced as ‘over-the-top and ridiculous’ U.S. propaganda
The upcoming season of Amazon’s Jack Ryan could have been scripted by John Bolton.
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Washington intensifies its collective punishment of Venezuelans
Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive.
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Out of the gloom
It may be summer in the northern hemisphere but politics is more gloomy and the lack of light demoralising.