Joao Pedro Stedile, a founder and leader of the MST, speaks about the importance of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), an anti-imperialist bloc of eight Latin American governments that includes Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
Thousands of Venezuelan youth took to the streets of Caracas on Friday last week to demonstrate their desire for peace and support government measures calling for an end to the use of firearms in the streets of the South American country.
In this interview Leonardo Bracamonte discusses the dynamics leading to Chavez's election in 1998, the extent to which the government is meeting the expectations people had at the time, and the project of 21st century socialism.
Earlier this week, an affiliation of rural social movements took to the streets of La Pedrera, Barinas state, to protest the kidnapping, torture and murder of two peasant political activists last week.
Politically empowered residents from all over the country have pushed forward a new housing bill in the Venezuelan Congress aimed at harmonizing rental relations in the country and protecting the rights of tenants from arbitrary evictions by landlords.
By Bolivar and Zamora Revolutionary Current - CRBZ, Feb 4th 2011
An interesting phenomenon, this one of recent days. It appears that the faucet has finally been opened, allowing the free flow of opinions, critiques, and self-criticisms in the Revolutionary Bolivarian camp.
By Operative Secretariat of the Social Movements towards ALBA, Feb 3rd 2011
In the bicentennial year of political independence of several Latin American countries, despite the hate campaign orchestrated from the mass media against Venezuela, we reiterate our commitment to make every effort to build the true integration of our peoples, and to support the example of the Venezuelan people.
By Federico Fuentes, Green Left Weekly, Dec 10th 2010
It should come as no surprise that Latin America, a region converted into a laboratory for ongoing experiments in social change, has increasingly become the topic of discussion and debate among the broader left.
If you were delighted that Hollywood finally took the new political turns of South America seriously, but were disappointed that Oliver Stone, in “South of the Border,” offered only the standard fare of “superstars” in a tired and untrue narrative of “Big Men Make History,” then you should read Ben Dangl’s “Dancing with Dynamite.”
