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Analysis: Law and Justice

White Collar Criminal Francisco Illarramendi: Another Pawn in the Anti-Venezuela Campaign

Some of the Venezuelan opposition and international media are using the case against U.S-Venezuelan citizen Francisco Illarramendi, who has pled guilty to a huge Ponzi scheme that included the use of millions of dollars from a PDVSA workers’ pension fund, to try to imply that the behaviour is supported by the Bolivarian revolution.

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Venezuelans Celebrate Rescue of Democracy as Threats Continue

This week, Venezuelans commemorated the 9-year anniversary of the failed coup d’etat that briefly ousted President Chavez from power and dissolved the nation’s democracy, installing a US-backed dictatorship. In an extraordinary turn of events, a popular uprising crushed the coup just hours later.

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Venezuela: Putting People First

UNITE Assistant General Secretary & Venezuela Solidarity Campaign Chair Jennie Bremner during a report back on Venezuela&#03

Jennie Bremner, Assistant General Secretary of Unite - Britain and Ireland's biggest union (with 1.5 million members) - writes on the positive example provided to working people by the Venezuelan struggle for social justice as well as the need for international solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution. 

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Interview with Edgardo Lander: The Path for Venezuela can not be Neoliberalism or Stalinism

Edgardo Lander, one of the leading thinkers and writers on the left in Venezuela (Photo: Luis Carlos Díaz)

The Venezuelan process is caught between a fundamental contradiction: popular demands for democratic participation against tendencies towards hierarchical decison-making and concentration of power. In this interview, Venezuelan Professor of Social Sciences Edgardo Lander speaks to these contradictions. 

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Venezuela's New Social Responsibility Law

On December 20, Venezuela's National Assembly (AN) passed a new Law of Social Responsibility in Radio, Television and Digital Media. Contrary to harsh criticism, it doesn't impose censorship. It expands on existing legislation to promote responsible programming, including online. 

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President Hugo Chávez, backed by South American Presidents, Condemns the Attack on Libya

Protesters gathered outside of the Libyan Embassy in Caracas on Sunday, 20 March 2011, to stand in solidarity with the Libyan pe

On Saturday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez told South Americans on VTV and TeleSur that the attack on Libya by the West’s “men of war” is aimed at seizing the North African country’s oil reserves.

Also over the weekend, Venezuelan students and representatives of the Latin American left expressed their open rejection of the NATO attack on Libya's national sovereignty. SEE: Editor's Note.

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Day 25 in the Trial of Posada Carriles - Follow the Money

Luis Posada Carilles, Venezuelan ex-CIA agent and wanted terrorist (Archive).

An update on the trial against Luis Posada Carriles, the Venezuelan ex-CIA agent and wanted terrorist, identified by US intelligence reports as a mastermind of the midair destruction of a Cuban airliner.

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Day 23 in the Trial of Posada Carriles

Court room detail of the trial against Luis Posada Carriles, the Venezuelan ex-CIA agent and wanted terrorist, identified by US intelligence reports as a mastermind of the midair destruction of a Cuban airliner.

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From Latin America to the Arab World – What’s going on in Libya?

Young people gather in the Libyan city of Ajdabiya as part of ongoing demonstrations for change in the North African nation (arc

We might describe the situation like this: in a part of the world linked once again to strong internal solidarities and from which only lethargy or fanaticism was expected, a wave of popular uprisings have arisen which have threatened to topple the allies of Western powers in the region, one after the other.

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Venezuela to Investigate Past Human Rights Crimes

Fabricio Ojeda (YVKE)

Last week, Venezuelan authorities announced their intention to investigate some 1,600 cases of disappearances, executions, and other human rights violations that took place at the hands of the nation’s security forces during the years 1958 – 1998, a period known in the country as the Fourth Republic.

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Government, Consciousness, and Practice

Un Gran de Maiz [http://ungranodemaiz.blogspot.com/] is an online blog dedicated to disseminating critical thought and analysis

The following translation provides insight into revolutionary power, class struggle, consciousness, and practical actions needed for the advance of the Bolivarian Revolution. 

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Socialist People's Power: An Essential Feature of Any Revolution

Members of Venezuela’s Bolívar and Zamora Revolutionary Current meet to discuss how to best organize, democratize and radical

An interesting phenomenon, this one of recent days. It appears that the faucet has finally been opened, allowing the free flow of opinions, critiques, and self-criticisms in the Revolutionary Bolivarian camp. 

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Human Rights Watch Perpetuates Bias and Myth Against Venezuela

Human Rights Watch Americas Director José Miguel Vivanco was expelled from Venezuela in 2008 for violating the conditions of hi

The US-based NGO, Human Rights Watch, released its annual “World Report” last week, using the opportunity to once again take aim at the Venezuelan government for what it considers to be the country’s “precarious human rights situation”.

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Walking the Walk: The Contrast between Chavez and Obama

During their brief 2009 encounter at the Summit of the Americas, Chavez gives Obama a copy of "The Open Veins of Latin Amer

His enemies call him a tyrant and a dictator, but he is neither. Hugo Chavez is a tireless champion of the poor and a committed Christian socialist. The only difference between Chavez's type of Christianity and Barack Obama's, is that Chavez walks the walk.

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If Julian Assange is a Terrorist, then What is Luis Posada Carriles?

The trials of the creator of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles began with less than a 24-hour difference on January 10 and 11, one in London and the other one in El Paso, Texas. The anomaly immediately catching the attention of many is that the champion of freedom of information will be accused of the very serious crime of terrorism, while the confessed terrorist will be tried for migratory crimes sanctioned by a sentence he has already served.

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