Analysis: Gender and Sexuality

In this important interview, feminist activist Gioconda Mota discusses the state of feminism within Venezuela; the right to free and legal abortion and the contradictions of the Bolivarian process.

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In this first study about the sociology of preferences we have been able to affirm the importance of the Venezuelan youth within the social spectrum as well as the deep transference of aspirations and values by previous generations to the youth.

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Yoly Fernandez lives in a barrio in the city of Valencia, Venezuela. She has been involved in community politics all her life and is a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), headed by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. In this interview she speaks of life for Venezuelan women during the Chavez administration.

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In this interview, Navas discusses the work of the Women's Development bank, her vision of socialism, the accomplishments of the Bolivarian process so far, and what remains to be done.

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One of the most important aspects of the Bolivarian Revolution is also the most overlooked: that the significant majority -often 90% or more - of its participants, its leaders, and the beneficiaries of its social programs are womyn

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Currently under discussion in the National Assembly is the draft law for gender equity and equality, although we do not know if the proposal of Romelia Matute, MP, which establishes that "everyone has the right to exercise their sexual orientation and identity freely and without discrimination, and consequently, the state shall recognize cohabitation partnerships (civil unions) between two people consisting of same sex by mutual agreement" is included.

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Though the last decade of Hugo Chávez's "socialist democratic" government has never been far from the media spotlight, key elements of the proclaimed Bolivarian process have been overlooked: chiefly the struggle for female emancipation.

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