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Analysis: Bolivarian Project

Beautiful Venezuela: Tourism with a Social Conscience

By Tamara Pearson – Venezuelanalysis.com, May 18th 2012

One of Venezuela's many beautiful sites, La Azulita caves, Merida state (Tamara Pearson/Venezuelanalysis.com)

Rather than Disneyland tourism, rather than humiliating “third word” selling itself to the  rest tourism, in stunning Venezuela, tourism is taking a new turn towards community and state run exploration of history, culture, and biodiversity.

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Venezuela's Paralympians Aided by Chavez's Socialism

By Julia Symmes Cobb- Reuters, May 16th 2012

Rubeng Gomez, 26, a member of Venezuela's Paralympics team, trains during a practice session in Caracas April 13, 2012 (Car

Venezuela's paralympics 40-person team is grateful to the government of Chavez which has poured unprecedented resources into grassroots sports.

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Venezuela Intelligence Chief Reveals Right-Wing Destabilization Attempts

By Correo del Orinoco International, May 15th 2012

Paramilitaries captured in El Hatillo in 2004 (archive)

The head of Venezuela’s National Intelligence Services (Sebin), Miguel Rodriguez, revealed last Sunday further details of a plan by right-wing opposition activists to destabilize the nation’s political environment in an interview broadcast on the private television station Televen. 

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The Presidential Elections: Towards a New Stage in the Bolivarian Revolution

By Marea Socialista, May 12th 2012

Social movements marching in support of the Great Patriotic Pole, a nation-wide coalition of social and grassroots movements sup

Marea Socialista (Socialist Tide), a radical current within the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, argue that the construction of a collective leadership is necessary for the deepening of the Bolivarian revolution in the coming period. 

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Chavez in 2012

By Stetephen Lendman - Correo del Orinoco International , May 4th 2012

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (Chavez.org).

After 12 years in office, Chavez remains overwhelmingly favored for reelection in October. Given the alternative, most Venezuelans have a clear choice.

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The Dangers of Failing to Deepen the Revolution

By Lucha de Clases, Apr 26th 2012

(Luchadeclases)

For all revolutionaries it is perfectly clear that 2012 will be a defining year of important challenges. Currently, the Bolivarian revolution is at a cross-road. Either we radicalise the revolution and we deepen its changes, or the reformist politics which seek to simply regulate capitalism, as opposed to eliminating it, could lead the revolution to suffer a dangerous defeat in both the long and medium term.

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Complexities of the Socialist Alternative

By Steve Ellner - Science & Society, Apr 18th 2012

Steve Ellner discusses Michael Lebowitz's writings in The Socialist Alternative on the need to place transformation of values at the center of socialist construction, largely based on Lebowitz's texperience in Venezuela and support for Chavez's "humanist objectives".

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Interview: Fighting to Take Back Media Sovereignty in Venezuela

By Victor Rodriguez, Rachael Boothroyd- Venezuelanalysis.com, Apr 17th 2012

Victor Rodriguez, second from the right (Rachael Boothroyd/Venezuelanalysis.com)

An interview with Victor Rodriguez of the Pluri-National Alternative Media Collective – The People’s Correspondents, based in Táchira state. The People’s Correspondents spans across Latin America and also has links in North America and Europe. The Venezuelan division was set up in 2008, when Rodriguez moved to Venezuela from his native Uruguay. 

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Leading Figures from Britain Celebrate 10th Anniversary of the Defeat of US-backed Coup in Venezuela

By Venezuela Solidarity Campaign UK, Apr 16th 2012

In the UK parliament, 25 Members of Parliament (MPs) from four different parties signed a motion showing solidarity with the gov

As Venezuelans celebrate the 10th anniversary of the defeat of the US backed coup that briefly overthrew the elected Chavez-led government, a broad range of prominent figures in Britain have shown their support for the expansion of democracy and social progress that followed the reversal of the coup and have warned against further US intervention in Venezuela.

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13 of April 2002: A Historic Victory for the Venezuelan People

By Orlando Maita - Aporrea.org, Apr 15th 2012

During the April 2002 coup Chavez supporters rallied all around the presidential palace to demand the Chavez's return. Here

Orlando Maita, a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), gives his view on the importance of the defeat of the April 2002 coup against the Chavez government for the current development of the Bolivarian process.

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The 47-Hour Coup That Changed Everything

By Gregory Wilpert – Venezuelanalysis.com, Apr 14th 2012

Chavez returned to supporters very early in the morning of April 14 2002 (agencies).

Republished for the tenth anniversary of the defeat of the April 11-13 coup attempt, the most complete account—in English—of what happened and an examination of the most pressing questions around the events of those days.

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Venezuela's Turning Point

By Samuel Moncada - The Guardian UK, Apr 13th 2012

April 13 2002: Following massive protests by Chavez supporters outside the presidential palace, the National Guard organise and

Defeating Venezuela's 2002 coup sent a message to the world: under Hugo Chávez we are in charge of our own affairs.

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Capriles, Homophobia, Anti-Semitism and Systemic Violence: Understanding the Venezuelan Elections

By Rachael Boothroyd, Venezuelanalysis.com, Apr 5th 2012

Anti-Chavez Venezuelan media quickly latched onto the Western media line about a state campaign of “persecution” against opp

With the Venezuelan elections now looming, and with Chavez’s approval ratings stubbornly hovering around the 57% mark, it would seem that the international media has stepped up its “disinformation” campaign against the Bolivarian revolution with renewed urgency, producing the kind of biased, baseless and manipulative stories about the “persecution” of opposition presidential candidate, Capriles Radonski, that have been filling the corporate press’ Latin American correspondence pages for weeks.

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"People are Building their Communities together”: A Foreign Delegation’s View of Revolutionary Venezuela

By Rachael Boothroyd - Correo del Orinoco International, Apr 2nd 2012

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The VSC recently organized a solidarity brigade to Venezuela so that British trade unionists could experience the Venezuelan process firsthand. Catriona Goss (CG), member of the Executive Committee for the British Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (VSC) and activist with the Student Friends of Venezuela, talks about the delegation’s success and the need to create international solidarity.

 

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Venezuela: October Presidential Elections, Crucial for the Revolution

By Jorge Martin and Patrick Larsen, In Defence of Marxism, Apr 2nd 2012

Henrique Capriles Radonski (archive).

Jorge Martin and Patrick Larsen argue that Venezuela’s October presidential elections are pivotal for the future of the Bolivarian Revolution, and that “unless the revolution is completed, with the overthrow of capitalism, then, at certain point, the whole process can be reversed”.

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