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Analysis: Social Programs

The Necessary Cultural Revolution

By Eduardo Parra Istúriz - Aporrea, Jan 12th 2010

It is becoming more and more clear to me that the revolutionary process suffers from the absence of a fundamental factor, a vital key of any people: Consciousness of their cultural identity.

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Colombians Come to Venezuela in Droves

By Benytsa González - Aporrea, Nov 4th 2009

It is estimated that by the end of 2009, 301 Colombians will be entering the country daily. The migration from the neighbouring country is no longer the same as that experienced in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, when one person per family group migrated. Colombian families are now collectively mobilizing to Venezuela.

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The People Before Profit Community Healthcare Project Visit to Venezuela: An Interview with Netfa Freeman

By Gregory Elich - Monthly Review, Oct 29th 2009

In June, the People Before Profit Community Healthcare Project visited Venezuela in order to assess the state of its healthcare system. Netfa Freeman is an organizer with the organization, and he discusses here what the delegation saw in Venezuela.

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The Venezuelan Effort to Build a New Food and Agriculture System

By Christina Schiavoni and William Camacaro - Monthly Review, Oct 18th 2009

In April 2008, as people around the world took to the streets to protest the global food crisis and the lack of political will to address it, a crowd of a different nature gathered in Venezuela. Afro-Venezuelan cacao farmers and artisanal fishermen of the coastal community of Chuao came together to witness their president pledge that the food crisis would not hinder Venezuela's advancements in food and agriculture.

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Venezuela's winning system for saving children through music

By John Terauds - The Star, Oct 18th 2009

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel

Venezuela, awash in natural resources but burdened by intractable urban poverty and violence, has for nearly 35 years been building after-school music programs that currently have an annual enrollment of a quarter-million children and teenagers.

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Venezuelan Environmentalist: "Tomorrow is too late"

By Federico Fuentes - Green Left Weekly, Aug 23rd 2009

Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network national co-convenor Frederico Fuentes spoke to Heryck Rangel, an environmental activist and leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV), about the challenges that the global environment crisis poses for Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution, and the planet. 

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Venezuelan Education Law: Socialist Indoctrination or Liberatory Education?

By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com, Aug 21st 2009

Venezuelan opposition activists allege that the new Education Law is unconstitutional, anti-democratic, politicizes the classroom, threatens the family and religion, and will allow the state to take children away from their parents for indoctrination. Are they correct?

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Socialist Feminist Revival

By Reihana Mohideen - Znet, Aug 9th 2009

There is a revival of socialist feminism in Latin America, spearheaded by the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions.

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Violence and Transformation in Venezuela’s Public Universities

By Zachary Lown – Venezuelanalysis.com, Jul 8th 2009

Fire fighters extinguish a UCV bus burned by assailants during the opposition march last May 20th
The Venezuelan government's decision to reduce federal funding for the nation's public universities in May generated two months of political turbulence that erupted into violence on university campuses. The conflict is rooted in a broader national debate over the role of education in society and the role of the state in public education.

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A Look at the Venezuelan Healthcare System

By Caitlin McNulty, Jun 30th 2009

In Venezuela, not only is health care a right; it is recognized as essential for true participatory democracy.

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Alternative to Health Insurance: Cuban Doctors in Venezuela

By Belen Fernandez, May 19th 2009

Credit: Amelia Opalinska
In February of this year, my friend Amelia and I visited a number of Barrio Adentro clinics in Venezuela, where we determined to partake of free health care despite the fact that there was nothing detectably wrong with us.

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Venezuela: 21st Century Technology for 21st Century Socialism

By Lainie Cassel - Green Left Weekly, Apr 21st 2009

Nestled in the heart of Barrio 23 de Enero, a large impoverished neighborhood in Caracas, among the man-made ranchos with red brick walls and metal roofing, stands the Ramon Ismael Ramos Infocenter. It is one of several government programs aimed at improving access to technology among those near or below the poverty line.

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Venezuela Has A Woman’s Face

By Jessie Blanco, Mar 4th 2009

Venezuela is a beautiful land with 26 million habitants, around 49.6% of which are women, with the highest rate of teen pregnancy in Latin America and the Caribbean, where 100% of women have suffered gender violence.

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Adentro Barrio Adentro: An American Medical Student in Venezuela

By Rebecca Trotsky-Sirr - Social Medicine, Dec 6th 2008

By the time I finished my second year of medical school in a large Midwestern university, I genuinely feared that I was losing the passion that had led me to choose medicine as a career. During 2004, I began reading articles about Venezuela's redesign of their health and education systems."This is too crazy to be real", I thought to myself.

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Budgets in Venezuela Take On a Woman’s Face

By Humberto Marquez - IPS, Nov 8th 2008

As Venezuela increasingly incorporates a gender perspective in its public budgets, issues like the paving of roads and the construction of schools are being joined by new priorities such as teen pregnancy and domestic violence prevention programmes when it comes to spending.

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