“Venezuela, more deadly than Iraq” read a headline in the New York Times on Aug. 23 – a headline of such shock value that it can only mean one thing: it’s election time in Venezuela.
The Real News Network interviewed sociologist, author, and member of the Venezuela Analysis collective, Gregory Wilpert, about the recent renewal of diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Colombia.
By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com, Aug 30th 2010
Suggett visits the isolated rural village of El Quinó, where the government and community have worked together to install solar power, bringing electricity to the town for the first time, along with other social benefits.
By Robert Naiman - The Huffington Post, Aug 26th 2010
The New York Times has exacerbated the harm of its denial about the Iraqi death toll, by using its own failure to accurately report the death toll in Iraq as a benchmark for comparison to other human tragedies: in particular, to claim that murder in Venezuela claimed more lives in 2009 than did violence in Iraq.
In the fourth and final part of this series titled "Bolivarian Revolution at a Crossroads," Eric Toussaint makes policy recommendations in the areas of hydrocarbons, economic diversification, land reform, the public debt, banking, foreign trade, workers' control, and anti-corruption.
By Eva Golinger- Postcards from the Revolution, Aug 19th 2010
A graphic image published on the front page of a Venezuelan newspaper has sparked an international controversy over the limits of press freedom and journalistic ethics.
While President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and the new President of Colombia, Manuel Santos, met in Santa Marta, Colombia, last Tuesday and agreed to normalize relations after a fierce diplomatic fight, there are no indications that such détente is in the cards for Venezuela and the United States.
When the elites refer to the safety and security of a country what they really mean is safety and security for investors. With this in mind it is interesting to observe the current western elite media disquiet regarding crime in Venezuela.
By Federico Fuentes - Green Left Weekly, Aug 18th 2010
An August 10 summit between recently inaugurated Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has lowered tensions in a region that some believe was on the brink of armed confrontation.
By Marta Harnecker - Monthly Review, Aug 17th 2010
We have said that, in order to judge a government, it is not so important to consider the pace at which it advances as the direction it is taking. This goal, this direction, has been defined by several of our governments as “twenty-first century socialism.”
According to the latest survey carried out by opposition pollster Datanalisis concerning the upcoming National Assembly elections in Venezuela, President’s Chavez’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) and its allied Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV) are set to rout the right wing opposition camp for the thirteenth time in fourteen elections since December 1998.
We, the undersigned, wish to express our strong support for progress in the establishment of a constructive regional dialogue around the internal conflict in Colombia and its impact on neighboring countries.
