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The 14 April Venezuelan Presidential Election Campaign: Start of a New Era

Although the results of the presidential elections in a few weeks are quite predictable, we are going through a fragile, vulnerable period, with a future that is less predictable. These elections, because of their place in history- the start of the era of the Bolivarian revolution without Chavez – have some special characteristics and factors.

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Venezuela, Chavez, and the Women’s Revolution

Some have argued that Chavez "masculinised" Venezuelan politics, yet women are everywhere to be seen in Venezuela's messy, problematic, beautiful and very joyful revolution.

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Interview: Alan Woods on the Future of the Venezuelan Revolution

Chavez supporter, 18 March (chavezcandanga)

El Universal interviews Alan Woods on the challenges for the Bolivarian revolution now, the state of the opposition, and the legacy of Hugo Chavez.

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Exposing the Venezuelan Right-Wing’s Attempts to Discredit April’s Presidential Election

Right-wing coalition candidate for president, Henrique Capriles, with Diego Arria and María Corina Machado.(archives)

With less than one month to go until Venezuela’s Presidential election on 14 April, following the sad death of Hugo Chávez, prominent figures in Washington and in the Venezuelan right-wing coalition appear to have begun a campaign to discredit the election process and, with it, the near certain victory of Nicolas Maduro.

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Chavez's Death, Like His Life, Shows the World's Divisions

The Latin American and US media reported almost exclusively negative news on Venezuela... and most people in the Western Hemisph

People don't know the unique role Chavez played in bringing about the unity and second independence of Latin America.

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Sins of Omission

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The New York Times coverage of Hugo Chavez’ death was a bunker buster of misinformation.

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Capriles is Aware of the Ambush by the Opposition against Him

Henrique Capriles (AP)

In this short analysis of the two political forces facing off in the upcoming presidential election, Jiuvant Huerfano for Venezuelan news website Noticias 24 argues that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles is aware of the internal forces who want to topple him as the opposition’s leader.

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Hugo Chavez, Internationalism and Revolution

Venezuela will carry weight in the world in the 21st century, just as it did in the hemisphere in the 19th under Simon Bolivar’s influence – but with even larger significance. That is the fruit of Hugo Chavez’s international policies over the last 15 years.

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Chavez: the Man and His Dream

When Americans ask me why there is such an outpouring of emotion among Venezuelans over the death of this man, I point out that the ordinary people of Venezuela saw themselves in President Chávez.  The President was a compendium of the very fabric of the country.

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Nicolas Maduro: More Than One Reason

Maduro addressing supporters in Caracas on March 11.

From bus driver to Head of State, Maduro represents people power.

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Estoy con Chávez, Soy un Chávista: Exploring the Political Appeal and Significance of Hugo Chávez

Chavez in Caracas

The death of Hugo Chavez has produced a heavily polarised debate over his legacy. In a new essay for Ceasefire, Samuel Grove takes issue with the eagerness of the Western left to cloak Chávez in a liberal garb, and argues this is symptomatic of a deeper conservative ambivalence towards what Chávez represented: a unapologetic fighter and leader for the Venezuelan working-class.

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President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man

Hugo Chavez (patriagrande)

President Hugo Chavez was unique in multiple areas of political, social and economic life. He made significant contributions to the advancement of humanity. The depth, scope and popularity of his accomplishments mark President Chavez as the ‘Renaissance President of the 21st Century’.

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Fidel Castro on the Death of Hugo Chavez: We Lost Our Best Friend

Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro (EFE Archives)

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, has described late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez as the best friend the Cuban people have had in their history.

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Hugo Chavez' legacy in Haiti and Latin America

Hugo Chavez during a visit to Haiti in March 2007

 This was the dream that inspired Hugo Chavez: a modern Bolivarian revolution sweeping South America, spreading independence from Washington and growing “21stcentury socialism.”

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On Venezuela, The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson Fails at Arithmetic

In the face of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s ill health and subsequent death on March 5, the U.S. press—including its most unabashedly liberal wing—jumped at the opportunity to disparage him and his legacy, often on spurious grounds.

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