Geography Archives: Venezuela

Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina look at the Venezuelan communes as a key force in an extended process of national liberation and social emancipation.

Communards from two rural communes in Yaracuy tell their story of a common struggle for the land.

For peasant farmers, the battle over seed rights is critical to their livelihoods.

“Venezuela is experiencing the first stage of a long recovery cycle,” said President Maduro.

On Friday, December 23, U.S. Federal Judge Robert Scola of the Southern District of Florida ruled that the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab does not have the right to diplomatic immunity, as the U.S. government does not recognize the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

On December 12 to 13, 2022, an evidentiary hearing in the case of The United States v. Alex Saab was heard before Judge Robert Scola in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. 

The United States announces that Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab will be brought to trial before a federal court in Miami.

Each overthrow, removal, disqualification, dismissal, or murder of left-wing presidents or presidential candidates in Latin America highlight the legacies of Comandante Hugo Chávez, of President Nicolás Maduro and, in general, of the Venezuelan political process of the last 23 years.

The challenges facing the communes intensified after Hugo Chávez’s death in 2013.

Commune spokespeople urged the Maduro government to boost grassroots efforts against “the metabolism of capital.”

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez defined communes as the key blocks to building socialism from the bottom up.

New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela.

The principal perpetrator, in what AP News called “one of the most extensive bribery scandals in U.S. military history,” popped up in Venezuela of all places. Leonard Glenn Francis bilked the U.S. Navy out of at least $35 million.

The incident gets so little media attention despite the fact that Argentinian authorities detained 19 crew members at a Buenos Aires airport at the behest of Washington.

In a major turn toward re-engagement, Maduro has announced increased ties with states in North Africa, West Asia and beyond.

Throughout their history, agricultural, chemical and food corporations have created and implemented tactics to marginalize the peasant farmer community and indigenous people.

U.S. sanctions, even by outdated estimates, have killed tens of thousands of Venezuelans.

In his new memoir, ‘Sacred Oath,’ former U.S. Defense Secretary, Mark Esper, who served under President Donald Trump at the time of the arrest of Alex Saab in Cape Verde, effectively admits that the White House was quite aware of the fact that Saab was a diplomat at the time of his capture.

As the U.S. government’s Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

Communard Robert Longa defended an industrialization process that counters capitalist logic.