By Indira Carpio Olivo, Ernesto J Navarro, Gioconda Mota, Nov 23rd 2011
In this important interview, feminist activist Gioconda Mota discusses the state of feminism within Venezuela; the right to free and legal abortion and the contradictions of the Bolivarian process.
By Heberto Hernández, Correo del Orinoco, Sep 20th 2011
Venezuelan poet and writer of the preamble to the 1999 Consitution, Gustavo Pereira, discusses bureaucracy, the role of the people, and the nature of poetry in Venezuela.
Spaces to read, discuss, reflect, exchange ideas, and develop knowledge have been multiplied in Venezuela in the last 10 years. The Venezuelan population is growing up in the cultural field.
The historic revolutionary moment of January 1, 1959, when General Fulgencia Batista escaped Cuba, came on the heels of another, lesser known revolutionary moment just a year earlier. On January 23, 1958, General Marcos Pérez Jiménez fled the capital of Venezuela, as a multi-class opposition ended a long era of military rule.
By BY ENcontrARTE, Francisco “Farruco” Sesto, Jul 27th 2011
Venezuelan Minister for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas, Francisco “Farruco” Sesto, details his role within the government’s housing mission, and discusses some of the problems and challenges facing the government in undertaking such a huge task.
Revolutionizing the Revolution is a documentary short following the hip-hop collective Tiuna el Fuerte, a local community collective that uses art, music and culture to transform the barrio of El Valle in Caracas, Venezuela.
Different members of the various community organisations that form part of the 'Popular Committees for the Bicentenary’ in El Recreo, Caracas, come together in a cultural day promoting typical Venezuelan food and drinks.
On Wednesday Venezuelan Minister of Culture, Francisco Farruco Sesto, announced the birth of Venezuela’s National System of Popular Cultures (SNCP) – a nationwide effort to foment the development of popular culture and the artists behind it.
Reinaldo Jose Bolivar, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs for Africa, discuses concrete ways in which Venezuela is deepening its links to its African “motherland”, links which have gone from almost nothing to something quite significant over the last five years.
By Rafael González, Encontrarte, Venezuelanalysis.com, Apr 2nd 2011
ENcontrARTE’s Akaida Orozco interviews Cuban Playwright Rafael González* on the development of Cuba’s Teatro Escambray and his 41 years contributing to a theater for social transformation. González discusses his participation in Venezuela’s Culture Mission and his views on the nature of revolutionary culture in societies working towards social change.
