Analysis: International

Venezuela is not a threat to US security. Venezuela is an example of how a rising people, facing the most difficult obstacles and the brutal force of empire, can build a model where social justice reigns, and human prosperity is cherished above economic wealth.

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Former Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe Velez, headed a meeting with prominent members of the Venezuelan opposition coalition, the Roundtable of Democratic Unity (MUD), last weekend in a public campaign to “denounce the hundreds of atrocities and abuses that the Chavista dictatorship has committed against democracy”.  

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Venezuela’s entrance into the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) will put an end to the vicious cycle of competition between Brazil and Argentina’s large private companies which leaves small countries marginalised, argued the Brazilian sociologist Emir Sader.

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The right are willing to do anything to combat and undermine the exciting new stage of anti-capitalist governments and movements in Latin America, including coups. Since the failed coup in Venezuela (2002) they have been trying new "types" of coups, such as the recent one in Paraguay.

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Siano argues that there are similarities between the "Third World movement" and the Bolivarian Revolution, and that that the Bolivarian Revolution represents a "novel resurgence of the values and ambitions of the Third World movement".

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Dobson examines the role of the Vestey Group in being up Venezuelan (and other countries') land, then the ten year story of the impact of the land reforms on his property and consequent repression of land occupiers.

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When Venezuela’s leftist president, Hugo Chávez, took power in 1999, Paul Gillman, once the scourge of the political establishment, became one of its most vocal defenders.

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