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Seducing People With The Communal Model

February 13, 2022 Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuela Analysis. Create! Chavez, Communes, Revolution, Venezuela

February 4 followed on the insurrectional footsteps of February 27 [1989, the Caracazo], a massive social explosion triggered by the absolute failure of the existing societal model. Three years later came Chávez’s military insurrection. Now, the element that was missing on the 27th was there on the 4th. Conversely, what was absent on the 4th was there on the 27th. The Caracazo mobilized the masses: tens of thousands of people went to the streets and expressed their dissent with the existing order. On the other hand, February 4th had a vanguard and a strategic objective, but the masses didn’t participate. The Bolivarian Revolution is the synthesis of those two moments: it brings vanguard and masses together.

An Uninspiring Beginning Of New Legislature In Venezuela

January 9, 2016 Sabina Becker, www.sabinabecker.com Educate! Chavez, Maduro, Venezuela

By Sabina Becker for Sabina Becker. Caracas, VZ - Hey! Remember how, back in 2002, there was a putsch in Venezuela? And how the poor folks came down from the hillside slums around Caracas, surrounded Miraflores Palace (then a nest of fascists and thieves), and demanded their president back? Remember how the soldiers of the Venezuelan national guard listened to the people and retook the palace in the name of the legitimately elected Bolivarian government? And remember how the Venezuelan army brought the real president, Hugo Chávez, back from La Orchila, the island where the fascists had held him kidnapped? Seems like it was just yesterday, eh?

Venezuela On April 11: 2002 Coup To 2015 Economic War

April 13, 2015 teleSur, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Chavez, Socialism, Venezuela

The 2002 coup was symptomatic of the impatience of the opposition to gain power democratically, their calculation that it was highly unlikely that they would be able to win power at the ballot box, as well as a reactionary response to the series of enabling laws which Chavez passed between 1999-2001. This series of laws really rocked the stronghold that the country’s elite had historically exercised over the Venezuelan economy and its political system. The 2001 reform of the Hydrocarbons Law in particular paved the way for the government to retake control over state oil company, PDVSA, which had basically just become a managerial entity tasked with administering contracts to foreign companies. These laws sent a message to opposition forces that the revolution looked set to be more than just a cosmetic overhaul of politics as is, as well as message to international economic organizations such as the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and World Bank that Venezuela intended to follow a sovereign and independent path in terms of its economic system.

Venezuela History: Chavez Comes To Power

April 14, 2014 Edgardo Lander, www.therealnews.com Educate! Chavez, Venezuela

: The coup was organized in different military establishments across the country. Some succeeded. But the main part of the coup, in Caracas, failed, and Chávez was responsible for Caracas. So, since some of the military installations out of Caracas were in the hands of the participants of the coup, there was a negotiation between Chávez, who realized that the coup had failed, and the government to call off the coup. So he was put on prime-time television, a national network for, I mean, the whole country, to announce, in a brief statement, that the coup had failed for now. JAY: Now, I'm sure that wasn't what was negotiated. His for now wasn't part of the deal. LANDER: No, not part of the deal. So this notion of for now was sort of--it became part of the Venezuelan imaginary--in this political culture as for now that will come again.

From Exile To Radicalization In Venezuela

April 11, 2014 Paul Jay, www.therealnews.com Educate! Chavez, Venezuela

We're going to be talking about Venezuela. And for us that's a somewhat complicated topic, because it's a revolution with failures and achievements. But when you place it in the American media environment, it looks like it's authoritarian, it's a dictatorship. In fact, over the last few years before Chávez died, President Chávez died, it was almost impossible in mainstream American media to see Chávez's name without the word dictator in front of it. It didn't matter how many elections were won; it was still dictator Chávez. Now, this is the same media and the same country that can treat Saudi Arabia as an ally and not say a single word about the fact that it's not just an absolutist monarchy; it's a monarchy that spreads the ideas of medievalism and a monarchy that's even been involved in terrorism, according to the joint congressional report into 9/11. So how is it Venezuela becomes the evil empire here and Saudi Arabia is somehow an ally of democracy in the United States and the Middle East?

Right-Wing Strategy To Crush Grassroots In Venezuela

March 19, 2014 Clodovaldo Hérnandez, www.venezuelaanalysis.com Educate! Activism, Chavez, Venezuela

Clodovaldo Hérnandez, Venezuelan writer and politician, talks about the criminalization of grassroots organizing, the right-wing strategy behind it, and goes on to explain why “the fate of the revolution rests in the communal councils” in an interview with newspaper Ciudad CCS, from March 10th, 2014.

Venezuela One Year After Chavez’s Passing

March 6, 2014 Jessica DesvarieuxTheRealNews.com Educate! Chavez, Government, Indigenous Rights, Venezuela

Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore. Wednesday, March 5, is the death anniversary of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. As the founder of the United Socialist Party, Chávez's legacy has now continued on with Venezuela's current president, Nicolás Maduro. But with thousands still protesting in the streets of Caracas, it begs to ask the question, what kind of country did Cházez leave behind? And ultimately what is his legacy? Now joining us by phone from Venezuela are our two guests. Miguel Tinker Salas is a professor of Latin American history at Pomona College. His forthcoming book is titled Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know. Also joining us by phone is Ewan Robertson. He is a staff writer with the news websiteVenezuelanalysis.com. He has written in-depth on labor issues, health policy, and foreign policy in Venezuela.

Media War Against Venezuela Continues

December 6, 2013 Maria Paez Victor, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Chavez, Maduro, Venezuela

I have just returned from Caracas where I witnessed that there is social order; people go out Christmas shopping to shops full of products, all anticipating the season festivities. There is however, strong political activity because of the coming municipal elections on December 8th. It is so good to see a population that is politically alert, not like Canadian elections that seem to be done by sleepwalkers due to the lack of confidence that erodes political participation here. Not so in Venezuela. The Communal Councils and the Communes are at the front of political activity; the government does not take a step without consulting them, and the participation of the communes in local projects is essential as they are its initiators. Maduro has taken measures to combat what is called “ an economic coup d’etat”.

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