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    Afro-Venezuelan memory, struggle and liberation: A conversation with Fita González

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on August 8, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A young activist talks about maroon resistance has deep roots in Venezuela, and it resonates with the country’s current communal project.

  •  | Lisbed Carolina Parada Venezuelanalysis | MR Online

    Building communal power from the Mayor’s office: A conversation with Lisbed Carolina Parada

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on July 27, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A communal leader and mayoral candidate explains how the July 27 elections could mark a turn toward women’s leadership and people’s power in her township.

  •  | Venezuelans went to the polls on May 25 to elect deputies for the National Assembly as well as state governors and regional council legislators | MR Online

    Ballots and bias: How the press framed Venezuela’s regional and legislative elections

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on June 3, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Roger D. Harris analyzes Western media’s biased and dishonest coverage of Venezuela’s May 25 election and the sweeping Chavismo victory.

  •  | The ACLU and other legal aid groups fired a lawsuit to provide Venezuelan migrants at Guantánamo with legal counsel Department of Homeland Security | MR Online

    U.S. sends dozens of Venezuelan migrants to Guantánamo as relatives plead innocence

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on February 15, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Venezuelan detainees are currently being held in the overseas camp and deprived of contact with relatives or legal counsel.

  •  | Cira Pascual Marquina Venezuelanalysis | MR Online

    In Venezuela, the commune is not just a utopia: A conversation with Cira Pascual Marquina

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on February 7, 2025 by Belsis Isabel Rodríguez Carballo and Fernando Luis Rojas (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.

  •  | Since the blockade began to be felt fisherfolk have had many challenges in their daily life | MR Online

    The Ayacucho Commune: The impact of the U.S. blockade on Amazonian Fisherfolk (Part III)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on January 31, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Communards living by the Orinoco River talk about the impact of U.S. sanctions on their work and lives.

  •  | Mending the nets in a collective shelter Rome Arrieche | MR Online

    The Ayacucho Commune: Fisherfolk and their cooperative practices (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on January 24, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    Venezuelan communards on the Orinoco River talk about their organizing processes in recent years.

  •  | Fisher peoples workdays are long Rome Arrieche | MR Online

    The Ayacucho Commune: A fishing community on the Orinoco (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on January 17, 2025 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    As part of VA’s Communal Resistance series, fisherfolk explain the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.

  •  | Joel Suárez Part II | MR Online

    Chávez, spirituality and celebration: A conversation with Joel Suárez (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on December 20, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about how Chávez celebrated life.

  •  | Joel Suárez Venezuelanalysis | MR Online

    Chávez, spirituality and revolution: A conversation with Joel Suárez (Part I)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on December 13, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about Chávez as a revolutionary man of faith.

  •  | The congress was convened to debate a new concept of democracy rooted in popular power Photo mincytgobve | MR Online

    Venezuelans debate 30-year plan for popular Democracy in historic Bloc Congress

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on November 17, 2024 by Andreína Chávez Alava (more by Venezuelananlysis)  | (Posted Nov 19, 2024)

    President Maduro called to “shake the foundations of the Venezuelan bourgeois state […] and build a communal, democratic state of the people.”

  •  | Casabe is baked on a budare Rome Arrieche | MR Online

    Rising from the Ashes of the Blockade: The Río Cataniapo Commune (Part III)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on November 8, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.

  •  | Since 2018 far right leader María Corina Machado has repeatedly called for foreign intervention writes Chávez | MR Online

    What is Homelander doing in Venezuela?

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on November 4, 2024 by Andreína Chávez Alava (more by Venezuelananlysis)  | (Posted Nov 07, 2024)

    VA columnist Andreína Chávez raises alarms about the escalating threats of mercenary invasions in Venezuela, pointing to the role the U.S. has played.

  •  | Río Cataniapo Commune Part II | MR Online

    Amazonian Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ People and the Bolivarian process: Río Cataniapo Commune (Part II)

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on October 25, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ community in the Venezuelan Amazon discusses their culture and organization as well as the Indigenous peoples’ rights established in the 1999 constitution.

  •  | Shaman Rufino CPM | MR Online

    Burning questions put to Shaman Rufino of Venezuela

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on September 25, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    A Huottüja leader easily dispatches most of the major political issues the country is facing, including the electoral dispute.

  •  | CITGO is Venezuelas most valuable foreign asset Tyson Cecka  Flickr | MR Online

    Vulture Fund Elliott chosen as winner of CITGO court-mandated auction

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on September 29, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    The $7.3 billion offer from the investment fund falls significantly short of the Venezuelan refiner’s valuation.

  •  | Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello addresses the media in front of some of the 400 seized firearms linked to an alleged assassination plot MPPRIJP | MR Online

    Venezuela announces arrest of U.S. Navy SEAL, weapons seizure

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on September 16, 2024 by José Luis Granados Ceja (more by Venezuelananlysis)  | (Posted Sep 18, 2024)

    Interior Minister Cabello said authorities had uncovered a “terrorist plot” to assassinate Maduro, the U.S. denied allegations of involvement.

  •  | Maduro secured a third term in the latest elections AP  Matias Delacroix | MR Online

    The Venezuela elections of 28 July 2024: What and whom to believe?

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on September 10, 2024 by Alfred de Zayas (more by Venezuelananlysis)  | (Posted Sep 12, 2024)

    Analyst and former UN rapporteur Alfred de Zayas looks at the history of U.S. intervention and sanctions against Venezuela.

  •  | Natalia Molina Venezuelanalysis | MR Online

    Culture, bread and revolution: A conversation with Natalia Molina

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on September 6, 2024 (more by Venezuelananlysis)  |

    For the Caracas-based La Minka collective, culture and bread-baking go hand in hand with the project of making a socialist commune.

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    Venezuela denounces U.S. ‘piracy’ after presidential jet confiscated

    Originally published: Venezuelananlysis on September 3, 2024 by José Luis Granados Ceja (more by Venezuelananlysis)  | (Posted Sep 06, 2024)

    The Venezuelan government said the seizure was “not an isolated action” and that it reserved the right to take legal action in response.

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