By Gregory Wilpert - Venezuelanalysis.com, Dec 4th 2013
Though activists, academics, and other readers rely on Venezuelanalysis.com daily and weekly for contextual, thorough, on the ground, non corporate perspectives on the Bolivarian revolution, few people know the site’s story.
April: between peace and rage shows the political violence that took place earlier this year in Venezuela, in the aftermath of the presidential election in April. Alvaro Sanchez, chargé d’affaires at the Venezuelan Embassy UK argues here that it was a blatant attempt to oust the government of Nicolas Maduro before it was even sworn into office.
By Ewan Robertson - Venezuelanalysis.com, Nov 24th 2013
What are the stakes for both Chavismo and the opposition in the upcoming municipal elections, and is it accurate to see the elections as a type of “plebiscite” on the government?
By Correo del Orinoco International, Nov 22nd 2013
Duilliam Virigay. National Spokesman of the Simon Bolivar National Communal Front (FNCSB), describes the interesting yet difficult challenges faced by Venezuela’s radical experiment with participatory democracy.
By Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com, Nov 19th 2013
The first national conference of commune members held on the weekend of 16 and 17 November was a demonstration of how the commune movement is slowly strengthening, and how it is these structures that are the antidote to many of Venezuela's ongoing problems of speculation, importation, bureaucracy, and corruption.
The Venezuelan state is intervening in different retail businesses around the country, principally those that trade in domestic appliances. This apparently modest decision, taken a week ago, has set in motion an interesting process of push and pull
Researcher Harry Greatorex walks the centre of the Andean city of Mérida to find out the public's impression of the government’s crackdown on high prices and speculation.
By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim - Venezuelanalysis.com, Nov 14th 2013
Over the last decade the Venezuelan government has sought to reform the country's security forces. But just how far has reform gone towards improving relations between the grassroots and the police and armed forces?
By Verónica Bayetti Flores - Feministing, Nov 11th 2013
Are Venezolanas really that much more invested in a limited beauty standard than women elsewhere? As a Venezolana myself, I have to say that this article about the trend in ridiculously busty mannequins in Venezuela – and how that both reflects and affects a new-ish plastic-surgeried reality – made me bristle a bit in its ethnocentrism.
