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Following Chavez’s call to not “leave the streets for one single day in the 27 days that remain” of the campaign to approve the proposed constitutional reform, the Yes campaign has kicked into gear. Within the space of a week there has been a dramatic change in the mood here in Caracas, as the “red hurricane” has unleashed itself across Venezuela. In the eye of the storm are the PSUV militants, members of the new United Socialist Party of Venezuela, who are the motor force behind the campaign

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Can you imagine: the Bushes and Clintons in the White House for fifty-two years; or, a janitor at a local university voting for whom the next university president will be; or, the U.S. invading Spain to bring democracy to the country? As the Four Jacks and a Jill sang in the late 60s, “It’s a strange, strange world we live in, Master Jack.”

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Yesterday a massive red sea took over the streets of Caracas to kick off the campaign in favour of Chavez's proposed constitutional reform. I haven´t seen any official figures, but the march was clear BIG - it was smaller than some of the others i have been on and was definitely less than a million but clear a few 100,000 participated. Its important to remember that this was to kick off the official campaign, and no doubt the closing march will be much bigger.

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In the October 15 issue of the Venezuelan newspaper, Ultimas Noticias, I noticed an advertisement sponsored by the government that had a dark skinned woman as the principal figure.  I decided check the ads in the full color magazine that accompanies the newspaper on Sundays. Not one dark-skinned person appeared in any of the commercial advertisements.  

Often when I am with foreign visitors driving down one of the highways in Caracas I ask them to count all the dark-skinned people they see on the billboards.  A three-year old could count as far.  

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I want to thank Venezuela Analysis for the invitation to share some of my thoughts through this website. I currently contribute columns regularly to Narco News and to 21st Century Socialism. What I would like to do here is share shorter reflections of an expatriate, looking in on Venezuela and looking out from here at the U.S. and the rest of the world.

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Five years ago Juan and Maria were tired of the dust that filled their barrio home day after day. One evening at supper they decided that it was time to do something about it. They visited their neighbors and called a meeting to discuss how to pave the street that ran in front of their houses.

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In the last six months, three books have appeared on the market that I believe form an excellent introduction to recent Venezuelan history. Here is the order in which you ought to read them and why.

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Back again to tierra venezolana!! I had the honor to interview Noam Chomsky for the Feria Internacional del Libro in Venezuela (international book fair) which will be held in all 23 states of the nation beginning in mid-October and lasting through November 19th. The Caracas part of the book fair, FILVEN, will be from November 8-18, and a great delegation from the United States will be participating as part of this year's theme: "United States, Is Revolution Possible?" Chomsky unfortunately can't accompany us in person but agreed to do this wonderful interview to later screen at the book fair and on national and international television.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Venezuelanalysis.com Blog section. In this space you will find several regular Venezuelanalysis.com writers blogging about whatever they choose to write about at the moment. Participating bloggers will probably be, so far:

• Myself, Greg Wilpert
• Chris Carlson
• Kiraz Janicke
• Federico Fuentes
• Mike Fox
• Eva Golinger (who has a blog at www.chavezcode.com, but will re-post entries here on occasion)

All of us are based in Venezuela, by the way.

We hope you enjoy this new feature. For now, until we get going with this, we do not have comments sections attached to the blogs. Once we get going, we might activate that, to see how it goes. Until then, you are free to write us letters, either privately (via the contact us form) or as a public letter to the editors (via the "Submit a letter" link).

Thanks for your support!

Greg Wilpert

P.S. For material support, we will soon have a new donation button on the site.

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