Cira Pascual Marquina Jorge “Toti” Vilalta (Venezuelanalysis) A barrio-based cultural project looks for creative ways to incorporate youth in the Bolivarian Process. Otro Beta is a self-organized project aimed at youth from Venezuela’s barrios. Its initial focus was on culture and sports, and even today basketball and breakdance tournaments continue to be important for Otro…
Category: BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
The Imprint of an Insurrectional Past: A Conversation with Iraida Vargas and Mario Sanoja
Cira Pascual Marquina Mario Sanoja and Iraida Vargas (Escuela Venezolana de Planificación) Two eminent anthropologists talk about Venezuela’s history and its relation to the present. Iraida Vargas and Mario Sanoja are not detached social scientists, indifferent to what they investigate. Instead, their work in anthropology and archeology is overtly engaged, seeking to link Venezuela’s history…
US Citizens Must Stand in Solidarity with Chavista Revolution (Orinoco Tribune Interviews Rainer Shea)
Orinoco Tribune In the US, a working-class revolution and the rule of the proletariat “can only happen through an incremental deconstruction of US imperialism worldwide,” said Rainer Shea in a recent conversation with Orinoco Tribune. “The dismantling of the US empire is going to happen on the peripheries.” During a discussion with Orinoco Tribune editor…
The Lesson Nicolás Maduro Gave to His Counterparts at CELAC
Laila Tejaldine The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, emerged stronger from his participation in the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Despite the more than 400 sanctions against Venezuela, despite the 2 assassination attempts against President Nicolás Maduro, despite the formation of the Lima Group to overthrow the Constitutional…
Participative Democracy Under Siege: A Conversation with Luis Britto García
Cira Pascual Marquina A highly regarded Venezuelan intellectual reflects on the vicissitudes of the Bolivarian Process’ political model. Luis Britto García is Venezuela’s most highly regarded living writer. He has penned numerous plays, novels, historical works, essays, and film scripts, and is a keen political commentator. In this VA interview, Britto García contraposes the contradictory…
Venezuelan Programs Stop the Delta Variant
Fight Back News Geovanni Peña, the director of the National Institute of Prevention, Health and Worker Safety, and on the left Angel Suarez, a member of the national federation of healthcare workers. Caracas, Venezuela – Geovanni Peña, the director of the National Institute of Prevention, Health and Worker Safety, states, “Capitalism is the biggest reason…
New Production Strategies: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune (Part II)
Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert El Maizal Commune lies in the fertile lands between the Lara and Portuguesa states in western Venezuela. Founded in 2009, this rural commune has since become an important political and economic force in both the region and the country. It not only produces huge amounts of corn every year,…
In the Shadow of the Blockade: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune (Part I)
Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert El Maizal Commune lies in the fertile lands between the Lara and Portuguesa states in western Venezuela. Founded in 2009, this rural commune has since become an important political and economic force in both the region and the country. It not only produces huge amounts of corn every year,…
In Nobody’s Backyard: Rejecting Geo-Political and Historical Fatalism
Gerald A. Perreira Except for the hum of US helicopters flying overhead, there was a deafening silence throughout the Caribbean region, during the recent Operation Tradewinds, Progressive and Pan-African forces did not utter a word, as soldiers from Guyana, Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago participated in this region-wide…
Hugo Chávez: “I Will Not Betray My Origins”
Mison Verdad We could write a hagiography of Commander Hugo Chávez or perhaps an anecdote of the battles he fought and won throughout the years, tasks that come to mind on a date so celebrated by millions of Venezuelans as is the birthday of the historic leader of the Bolivarian Revolution. But we decided to…
Interview with Professor Adán Chávez: Continuous Coup Plan against Cuba and Venezuela
Geraldina Colotti and Adán Chávez At the conclusion of the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples of the World, held in Caracas, journalist Geraldina Colotti interviewed Professor Adán Chávez, historic leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Venezuelan Ambassador to Cuba. The Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples of the World has just ended in Caracas, what is the…
Being Bolivarian
Alexander Torres Iriarte I Bolívar had a revolutionary socio-political vision based on the principle that justice was the queen of republican virtues. The Liberator’s doctrine was based on the premise that the construction of a new social subject, far from monarchical exploitation, was based on a community where justice was a daily exercise. In his…
