Latest Venezuela
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Sergent: Grassroots Democracy & the Social Production of Housing
Venezuela’s cities have given birth to a powerful social movement aiming at urban reorganization through self-governed assembly processes
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Ellner: Absurd And Pathetic Campaign Against President Maduro
Lima Group’s absurd boycott of Venezuela at Tthe Cop25 Climate Change Summit
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A Critique of Police Violence in Venezuela’s Barrios
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Marin: Venezuela Teachers’ Strike
‘Those of Us Who Continue to Teach Do So Out of Love’
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Vergel: Democratize the Land, Empower the People
A campesino organization calls for a new way of doing politics, inspired by Chavez
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Koerner: Media Conceal Chile’s State Criminality, Delegitimize Bolivian Democracy
The coverage of Chile’s uprising proves once again that criminality on the part of Western states and their clients is perfectly palatable to corporate journalists whose atrocity, Michael Parenti observes, is always “against the truth.”
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Vaz: Strike at the Helm at Seven
Seven years ago, Chávez delivered his final major speech, laying out his vision of Venezuela’s socialist transition
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Dobson: Venezuela Government Hosts International Commune Congress
Maduro affirmed that popular power is “the soul” of the Bolivarian project
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A look at the current anti-neoliberal uprisings in Ecuador and Argentina through the lens of decades of similar struggle in Venezuela
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Lopez-Gonzalez: Venezuela’s Thermoelectric Power Plants
The Venezuelan Observatory of Political Economy argues in favour of a sustainable electrical generation model based on wind power
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Prashad: Trump Lashes Out at Iran, China & Venezuela
President Trump made his third address to the United Nations General Assembly amid simmering tensions in the Middle East over recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, which the United States blames on Iran
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Emersberger: Amazon’s Anti-Venezuela Propaganda
Amazon's new anti-Venezuela TV series and the media complicity surrounding it
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Rojas: Rebuilding the Hegemony of Chavismo
An intellectual committed to the communal project talks about the contradictions that the popular movement is facing in Venezuela today
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Young: 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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Young: 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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Koerner: Washington Escalates Venezuela Sanctions into Full-Fledged Embargo
The latest measures amount to a total trade embargo impacting both US and foreign entities
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Prado: In Venezuela, Social, Popular and Communal Unity Is Not an Illusion
The Corriente Revolucionaria Bolívar y Zamora interviewed Ángel Prado, the spokesperson of the Socialist Commune El Maizal, a campesino organization dedicated to building socialism at the grassroots level in Venezuela
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Rojas: Rebuilding the Hegemony of Chavismo
An intellectual committed to the communal project talks about the contradictions that the popular movement is facing in Venezuela today
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Chomsky: “The Task Ahead Is Enormous, and There Is Not Much Time”
Interview on climate change, US empire, antisemitism, Venezuela, and much more
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Harris: Justifying Regime Change in Venezuela
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s report on Venezuela echoes the US government’s talking points, which are designed to terminate the two-decade-old Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela
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Fuentes: Amid crisis and sanctions, LGBTI activists continue to demand change
One of the sectors hardest hit by Venezuela's economic crisis is the nation’s LGBTI community
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Vaz: A ‘Chavista Overcoming of the Crisis’
Reports on efforts from the Chavista left to regroup and rescue Chávez’s socialist horizon
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Emersberger: Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans
The study is the clearest evidence of the devastating impact US policy is having on the people of Venezuela
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Vargas: New Socialist Communities
A powerful social movement to reclaim urban space also has ideas about how to overcome the crisis in Venezuela
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Venezuela’s cities have given birth to a powerful social movement aimed at fighting capitalism on a territorial level
Venezuela Video
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Wilpert: The Origins of Venezuela’s Economic Crisis
Venezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing
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Bastani: The Coup in Venezuela, Explained
Sanctions and oil prices are to blame for the country's economic plight, while it boasts a far greater tradition of democracy than critics often realize let alone dare to admit
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Ellner: Trump Putting Venezuela on ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ List?
The Trump administration is actively exploring the option of placing Venezuela on the state sponsor of terrorism list, to further intensify sanctions that have already caused significant damage to Venezuela’s economy
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The siege-like conditions which Venezuela has been subjected to from both foreign interference and domestic opposition present a myriad of challenges for the country to move forward
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Wilpert: US Efforts to Sabotage Venezuelan Elections Intensify
Lucas Koerner is a journalist at Venezuelanalysis based in Caracas,...
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Weisbrot: Trump Renews Venezuela Sanctions
Trump renewed Obama's sanctions against Venezuela, declaring it an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the US, violating international law in the process
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Weisbrot: Venezuela’s New Economic Measures
The new measures can help alleviate some of Venezuela's economic problems, but do not address the heart of the problem, an inflation-depreciation spiral
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Weisbrot: New US Sanctions Against Venezuela
US sanctions against Venezuela, which VP Pence announced Wednesday, target Venezuelan debt and will make borrowing more expensive, hurting the people Trump claims to help
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Wilpert: Venezuelan Vote Count
The CEO of the company that sold and operates the voting machines in Venezuela says that there was a discrepancy of 1 million votes
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Martin: Opposition Violence at Venezuela Protests
Violent opposition protesters attempt to intimidate reporters
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Ellner: Constitutional Assembly a “Mixed Bag”
The Venezuelan government's call for a constitutional assembly is a positive step for breaking the political deadlock, but it still won't solve the country's most pressing problems
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Koerner: Massive Protests in Venezuela
While international media focused almost exclusively on the opposition protests and clashes with the police, the pro-government protests were equally as large
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Boothroyd Rojas: Why has Venezuela’s Supreme Court Assumed Legislative Power?
Discussion on the Venezuelan TSJ’s move to assume the legislative power of the AN
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