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The Community and Security Forces in Venezuela

By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim - Venezuelanalysis.com, Nov 14th 2013

(Ryan Mallett-Outtrim/Venezuelanalysis)

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?

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Interview with Interior and Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres, Part Two

By Miguel Rodriguez Torres and Michael Albert, Znet, Sep 25th 2013

(Reuters)

In late August Michael Albert interviewed Interior and Justice Minister of Venezuela, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, a close confidant and long time ally of President Maduro now, and of President Chavez earlier, on many matters critical to current events and prospects in Venezuela. This is part two.

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Interview with Interior and Justice Minister Miguel Rodriguez Torres, Part One

By Miguel Rodriguez Torres and Michael Albert, Znet, Sep 21st 2013

Miguel Rodríguez Torres (Raúl Romero)

In late August Michael Albert interviewed Interior and Justice Minister of Venezuela, Miguel Rodriguez Torres, a close confidant and long time ally of President Maduro now, and of President Chavez earlier, on many matters critical to current events and prospects in Venezuela.

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In Order to Overcome Corruption in Venezuela

By Luis Britto García - Aporrea, Sep 3rd 2013

"Revolution without corruption" reads this mural in Venezuela

Venezuelan writer Luis Britto Garcia looks at the historical origins, current manifestations of, and possible solutions to the issue of corruption in Venezuela.

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What You Need to Know About the Enabling Law

By Correo del Orinoco, Aug 19th 2013

Four Enabling Laws were approved under late President Hugo Chavez (Correo del Orinoco)

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, has announced that he will ask for special powers to legislate against corruption. In the battle of the revolutionary government against this scourge, the possibility looms of a new Enabling Law. To better understand this legal mechanism, Correo del Orinoco presents a summary of the subject.

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"Under Any Condition, the Revolutionary Morale": An Interview with Julian Conrado

By Aporrea.org, Rebelion, Aug 18th 2013

Conrado (Aporrea.org)

An excerpt of an interview by Aporrea.org with Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) member Guillermo Torres Cueter, known as Julian Conrado, or “The Singer.” 

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Debate: Gun Control Reform in Venezuela

By Rebecca Hanson - Venezuelan Politics and Human Rights, Aug 14th 2013

(archive)

As part of the debate on gun control in Venezuela, Hanson looks at the impact of Venezuela's gun reform on police, right to self defense, and the arms market.

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The Judicial Coup Advances

By Luis Britto Garcia, May 24th 2013

Luis Britto Garcia (VTV)

Venezuelan writer and lawyer Luis Britto Garcia explores how opposition leader Henrique Capriles hopes to use international judicial bodies to challenge the 14 April presidential election, and predicts that “a grave judicial battle is brewing”.

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Venezuela: ‘We spend more, in order to gain more’

By Jody McIntyre - New Internationalist, Apr 7th 2013

The deep social changes are described to me as ‘the process’. Governments that came before the election of Hugo Chàvez in 1998 are grouped as ‘the Fourth Republic’. Venezuelans, now living in the Fifth Republic, do not want those days to return.

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We’re Not Going to Allow Shortages or Messing with Prices

By Ciudad CCS / Consuelo Cerrada, Feb 25th 2013

Indepabis president Consuelo Cerrada (archive)

The Venezuelan government continues its fight against price speculation, hoarding and sporadic shortages of certain products. Venezuelanalysis.com translates this interview with the president of Indepabis, the government’s consumer protection body charged with inspecting businesses and ensuring that companies abide by laws on price controls and other measures to guarantee the population’s access to goods and services.

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We Need a Mass Movement to Push For the Law Against Forgetting

By C. Hernandez / C. Melendez - CIUDAD CCS, Dec 9th 2012

Fernando Soto Rojas (AVN)

“We need a mass movement to lead the struggle to demand justice for the crimes of the Pacto de Punto Fijo era (1958-1998),” says parliamentarian Fernando Soto Rojas in this interview with Venezuelan daily Ciudad CCS.

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“Those Who Do Their Job Shouldn’t Fear Inspection”: Interview with Venezuela’s “Inspector”, Admiral Carmen Meléndez

By C. Hernandez / C. Melendez - Ciudad CCS, Nov 21st 2012

Admiral Carmen Melendez (Ciudad CCS)

Tired of hearing that public works and government projects are not functioning like they should, President Hugo Chavez has given instructions for Carmen Melendez to do on-site supervisions and to bring back the names of those responsible. The very possibility her visiting public institutions suspected of inefficiency will send some into a panic, and make others tremble.

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Terrorist Accomplice Supports Venezuelan Opposition Candidate

By Jean-Guy Allard – Correo del Orinoco International , Sep 21st 2012

Ricardo Koesling (Aporrea.org)

Ricardo Koesling, the leader of opposition political party Piedra (“Rock” in English) who declared “we’ll use bullets, fists, kicks, everything we’ve got, to force the Chavistas out” and publicly reiterated his ongoing support for right-wing candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski, just happens to be the top Caraca sbased boss of Miami’s Cuban- American Mafia and the Venezuelan link in Luis Posada Carriles’ international terrorist network.

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Open Borders and Open Hearts: How the Venezuelan State Addresses its Population of Colombian Refugees

By Stephanie Kennedy, Sep 14th 2012

“Welcome to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” reads the sign on the Venezuelan – Colombian border in Zulia state (EFE)

Stephanie Kennedy analyses the Venezuelan state’s response to the influx of refugees resulting from Colombia’s on-going internal conflict, and the experience of Colombians upon arrival in Venezuela.

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Citizen Security from a Leftist Perspective: International Conference in Venezuela

By Rachael Boothroyd - Correo del Orinoco International , Sep 7th 2012

“The Left and Public Security Policy” conference took place in Venezuela’s National Experimental University of Security (U

Founded in 2009, the UNES was conceived of as a totally new way of training police officers and reforming policing methods. The proposal of the UNES in itself is incredible, but also somewhat daunting. In short, to fundamentally transform the power relationship between the police and society.

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