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Latest Venezuela
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Pearson: Media Wars: The Role of the Left When Venezuela’s Imperfect Revolution is Under Attack
The best way to counter the media war on Venezuela is to do what they don't do: offer in depth, contextualised, critical coverage
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Sullivan: Venezuela’s Crisis From Up Close
The solution to this problem needs to be determined by the Venezuelan people with support from other Latin American people
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Martín: Venezuela – a last warning
There are only two ways out: either to go back to “normal” capitalism (that is, to make the workers pay the price for the crisis), or to go forward to socialism (that is to make the capitalists pay)
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Weisbrot: Economic policy could determine the political results in Venezuela
The Venezuelan government faces many challenges, but none so important or urgent as economic recovery
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Something is going to give in Venezuela. It’s a feeling that can be perceived in the air, in talks, on the streets, in public transport, in the people…
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New York “Alberto Lovera”: Statement on the Neoliberal Offensive Against the Bolivarian Revolution
Statement on the Neoliberal Offensive Against the Bolivarian Revolutionzco
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Draitser: Venezuela’s Opposition: Attacking Its Own People
The corporate media would have you believe that Venezuela is a dictatorship on the verge of political and economic collapse. But that is not the case
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Koerner: Venezuelan Social Movements Rally Against Open-Pit Mining in the Orinoco Arc
The demonstration is part of a week of action organized by popular movements against a series of agreements signed by the Venezuelan government with Canadian mining firm Gold Reserve
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Weisbrot: Venezuela: Dismantling a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Unifying the exchange rate is the first and most important step toward economic recovery
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Ciccariello-Maher: Venezuela: ¡Comuna o Nada!
The only possible saviors of the Bolivarian process are those who have saved it on every other occasion—and who today coalesce around the horizon of the commune
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Weisbrot: Venezuela: Dismantling a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Unifying the exchange rate is the first and most important step toward economic recovery
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Dominguez: Venezuela’s Right Wing Confesses to 17 years of Political Delinquency: The Amnesty Bill
The Amnesty Bill is not at all a mechanism for reconciliation as claimed by the Bill but it is actually an impunity law
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Dominguez: Venezuelans Back Maduro’s Vision of a Socialist Future
The declared intention is to drastically reduce the country’s dependency on oil and reduce as much as possible the importation of both manufactured and agricultural goods
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Piper: Venezuela: a turning point for Latin America?
Whichever route is taken, the ability, or failure, to regenerate mobilization, participation and hope will be decisive. And the key to that is regenerating popular power
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A powerful coalition of domestic forces in cahoots with Washington has unleashed an economic war against Venezuela's progressive government since 2012
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Emersberger: The Economist’s Latest Whoppers on Venezuela
The magazine shamelessly reports on Venezuela with no fear of embarrassment
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Mallett-Outtrim: How Bad is Venezuela’s Economic Situation?
Venezuela's central bank just did something totally unexpected: it released updated economic figures showing the country has sunk into its worst economic crisis in decade
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Fidler: Can People’s Power save the Bolivarian Revolution?
Rightists’ election victory poses major threat to Venezuela’s advances
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Dearden: Venezuela’s food revolution
Ultimately Venezuela realized, the only way to make the vision of food sovereignty a reality, is economic democracy
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Albert: Venezuelan Errors and Prospects
We can work to ensure that the future of Venezuela is in Venezuelan hands
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Pearson: Struggle Ahead for Venezuela Grassroots as Right-Wing Sworn In
How will grassroots organizations within the Venezuelan revolution react to the new situation?
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Rasmus: Neoliberalism Raises Its Ugly Head in South America
As Washington Targets Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina
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Mulder: Oil Giants Punish Venezuela through Dutch treaty
While the country is torn apart by poor governance, poverty and polarisation, it is attacked from the outside by oil firms claiming tens of billions of dollars
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Camacaro: Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, by Popular Demand
The National Assembly of Venezuela passed one of the most progressive seed laws in the world on December 23, 2015
Venezuela Video
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Golinger: Why the CIA Won’t Give Up on Venezuela
Interview about the Western backed resistance groups in Venezuela and how there is a coup happening in real time
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Golinger: The Media War on Venezuela
Venezuela has been in the eye of a constant media storm. That storm is intensifying as a new opposition coup plot was thwarted
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Weisbrot: Will Venezuela’s New Floating Exchange Rate Curb Inflation?
New exchange rate is intended to safeguard the importation of essential and primary goods
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Ali: The Inaugural Hugo Chavez Memorial Lecture
The Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in Britain on February 20, 2014, sponsored the inaugural Hugo Chavez Memorial Lecture in London
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Robertson: Venezuela One Year After Chavez’s Passing
Latin American studies professor Miguel Tinker Salas and Venezuelanalysis.com journalist Ewan Robertson discuss the presidency of Hugo Chavez and the current state of opposition protests
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Bhatt: US Backing the Destabilization of Venezuela
Elite forces in Venezuela and the US are determined to undermine the accomplishments of the Bolivarian revolution
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Wilpert: Why is Inflation So High in Venezuela?
Venezuela is struggling to find a solution to capital flight and exchange rate problems
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Wilpert: Understanding Venezuela’s Opposition Protests
The Real News speaks to Venezuelanalysis.com founder Gregory Wilpert about the reasons behind the opposition protests in Venezuela
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Robertson: Venezuela’s Maduro Holds Mass Rally
Thousands of government supporters gathered yesterday in Caracas to call for “peace” after violent clashes left three dead on Wednesday
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Wilpert: Maduro Wins Venezuelan Election with 50.66% of Vote – Capriles Demands Audit
On Sunday night, the Venezuelan presidential elections were a cliffhanger....
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Wilpert: The Life and Legacy of Hugo Chavez
Gregory Wilpert a German-American sociologist who earned a Ph.D. in...
Venezuela Blogs
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Fitz: Health Care in a Global Environment
It is possible to provide health care much more cheaply...
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Read my review of this fine book here
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Bohmer: Support the Victory of Nicolas Maduro as President
It is really important and our responsibility that we demand...
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Bohmer: My Statement at Memorial for Hugo Chavez
Talk at Hugo Chávez Memorial Peter Bohmer, Olympia, Washington March...
Venezuela Interviews
A series of interviews about Venezuela, interviewer: Michael Albert
August, 2013
Minister of the Interior Rodriguez 1
Minister of the Interior Rodriguez 2
February 2013
Supreme Court Judge Vegas
Venezuela Analysis Pearson
Venezuela Analysis Wilpert
2008 but still highly relevant...
Supreme Court Judge Vegas
Women's Bank, Castenada
Carora Mayor Julio Chavez