Opinion & Analysis

Venezuela, Chavez, and the Women’s Revolution

By Tamara Pearson - New Matilda, Mar 26th 2013

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

By El Universal, Alan Woods, Mar 26th 2013

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

By Lee Brown - VSC UK, Mar 25th 2013

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

By Mark Weisbrot - Al-Jazeera, Mar 24th 2013

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

By Jason Hirthler – New York Times Examiner, Mar 22nd 2013

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

By Jiuvant Huerfano – Noticias 24, Mar 22nd 2013

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

By Luis Bilbao, Mar 21st 2013

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

By JOSÉ PERTIERRA- CounterPunch, Mar 21st 2013

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

By Ruben Rivas - Correo del Orinoco International, Mar 20th 2013

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

By Samuel Grove - Ceasefire, Mar 20th 2013

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

By James Petras, Mar 18th 2013

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 21^st Century’.

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

By Fidel Castro / Prensa Latina, Mar 18th 2013

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

By Kim Ives - Haiti Liberte, Mar 17th 2013

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 “21^stcentury socialism.”

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

By Keane Bhatt - NACLA blog, Mar 17th 2013

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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