Yesterday 104 people, including fifty commune representatives, were sworn into the Local Council of Public Planning (CLPP) of Carora, Lara state. The Carora CLPP is the first to swear in for the current period, with others soon to follow. read more ...
Peruvian author says Maduro regime is becoming 'messianic dictatorship' intent on spreading its influence across Latin America The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa has warned that Venezuela's crackdown on anti-government street protests is a threat to democracy across Latin America. Continue reading... ...
Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com While most first world and imperialist countries criminalise refugees and undocumented migrants, scapegoating them, promoting racism, and mistreating them, Venezuela welcomes all migrants, and provides them with the same rights as Venezuelan citizens. read more ...
After two opposition mayors were arrested and found guilty of crimes related to the violent barricades, their vacant positions will now be contested on 25 May, the National Electoral Council (CNE) has announced. read more ...
Donald Kingsbury - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs After over a month of violence explicitly aimed at ousting the Maduro government, major media outlets and governments in the North Atlantic are blind to the bad faith of the opposition. read more ...
Seumas Milne - The Guardian If we didn't know it before, the upsurge in global protest in the past couple of years has driven home the lesson that mass demonstrations can have entirely different social and political meanings. read more ...
En el día de hoy la señora Tibisay Lucena ha anunciado que el CNE convocará a elecciones para nuevos alcaldes en San Cristóbal y San Diego. Con toda responsabilidad la Mesa de la Unidad no reconocerá dichas elecciones y hará todo cuanto esta en su poder para evitarlas. La señora Tibisay Lucena peca de dos maneras graves en su anuncio. Primeramente ella no es quien para llamar dichas elecciones ya que...
Authorities in Venezuela's western state of Merida say they have arrested three armed opposition protesters, as violent anti-government groups continue to vandalise public assets. read more ...
Street action is now regularly used with western backing to target elected governments in the interests of elites If we didn't know it before, the upsurge in global protest in the past couple of years has driven home the lesson that mass demonstrations can have entirely different social and political meanings. Just because they wear bandannas and build barricades and have genuine grievances doesn't...
President Nicolás Maduro's government asks Cardinal Pietro Parolin to be 'witness in good faith' to talks on ending conflict Venezuela has formally invited the Vatican's secretary of state to be a "witness in good faith" to talks on ending two months of deadly anti-government protests there. In a letter on Wednesday, President Nicolás Maduro 's government asked Cardinal Pietro Parolin,...
President Nicolas Maduro has called on supporters to vote for delegates ahead of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela's (PSUV) national conference in July. read more ...
Atilio Boron - Network in Defense of Humanity What has to be done to put an end to the violent escalation in Venezuela? read more ...
Steve Ellner- NACLA The violent anti-government protests that shook Venezuela in February have once again thrust the issue of the pace of change into the broader debate over socialist transformation. Radical Chavistas, reflecting the zeal of the movement’s rank and file, call for a deepening of the “revolutionary process,” while moderate Chavistas favor concessions to avoid an escalation of the violence....
Dan Beeton- CEPR The “ZunZuneo” project, which the Associated Press reports was “aimed at undermining Cuba's communist government,” was overseen by USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI). AP describes OTI as “a division that was created after the fall of the Soviet Union to promote U.S. interests in quickly changing political environments — without the usual red tape.” Its efforts to undermine...
Today in Caracas a group of eight ambassadors from member countries of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) met with Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and leading politicians belonging to the opposition. read more ...
Seumas Milne travels to Caracas to meet Nicolás Maduro, the late Hugo Chávez's successor as president of Venezuela. Two months of civil conflict has left dozens dead, but with the protests appearing to ebb, Maduro is in defiant mood, convinced he knows who is behind the unrest and what their ultimate goal might be. Maduro speaks candidly on subjects ranging from Edward Snowden to John Lennon Continue...
En una entrevista en exclusiva para the Guardian, el presidente de Venezuela manifiesta que la administración de Obama está fomentando la confrontación civil con el objetivo de provocar un golpe de estado a 'cámara lenta' al estilo de Ucrania El presidente de Venezuela ha acusado a los Estados Unidos de usar una sucesión de protestas callejeras para orquestar un golpe "a cámara lenta"...
Venezuela president claims philosophy of 'peace and tolerance' inspired by music and counter-culture of 1960s and 70s It might seem an unlikely claim for Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro , to make after weeks of violent unrest in the country but the burly, moustachioed, former bus driver describes himself as a bit of a hippy and a fan of John Lennon's campaigns for peace and love. Continue...
Venezuelan protests against Maduro government has exposed divisions in a country in which a race-tied class war is raging President Nicolás Maduro talks exclusively to the Guardian On the streets of the well-heeled Chacao district of Caracas, student protesters are still in action at 10.30 at night. Barricades of burning rubbish block the roads, as small groups of masked demonstrators trade missiles...
El presidente de Venezuela dice que su filosofía esta inspirada en la música de los años 1960 y 1970 Podría parecer una declaración sorprendente por parte del presidente de Venezuela después de semanas de violentas protestas en el país. Pero el corpulento y bigotudo antiguo conductor de autobuses se describe así mismo como "un poco hippy" y fan de las campañas...