A coalition of Venezuelan social movements have rejected reports in a private Venezuelan newspaper linking them to paramilitary groups as false. The movements have denounced the allegations as “an unprecedented offensive by the domestic counterrevolution, that forms part of the electoral and conspiratorial campaign of [Venezuelan presidential opposition candidate] Capriles Radonski”.
By Jessica Pernia, Tamara Pearson – Venezuelanlaysis.com., Feb 28th 2012
In this interview Venezuelanalysis talks to one of the activists who has been involved in the formation of the GPP almost right from the start. Although the GPP, an organisation which formally unites 35,000 Venezuelan movements and collectives, is just in its initial stages, we try to get a hang of what kind of organisation it could be, and the processes and forces that have been involved in its formation.
Following the news that Chavez was to undergo another round of surgery in Cuba this week, Venezuelans gathered outside the Teresa Carreno theatre in Caracas last Thursday to wish their president good luck and to make it clear that "nobody is surrendering here".
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.
