This film attempts to do something taboo in Venezuela - analyze from a social and cultural point of view the effects that the country's multi-billion dollar beauty industry has on the lives of ordinary women.
By Coral Wynter - Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network, Dec 22nd 2010
Yoly Fernandez lives in a barrio in the city of Valencia, Venezuela. She has been involved in community politics all her life and is a member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), headed by Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. In this interview she speaks of life for Venezuelan women during the Chavez administration.
By Susan Spronk, Jeffery R. Webber -Upside Down World, Jul 2nd 2010
An interview with Rosa Maria Gonzalez, a leading commune member, about how the communes work, how they help solve community problems, increase women's participation, raise consciousness, and their role in the Bolivarian revolution,
By Susan Spronk, Jeffery R. Webber - The Bullet, Lidice Navas, Jul 1st 2010
In this interview, Navas discusses the work of the Women's Development bank, her vision of socialism, the accomplishments of the Bolivarian process so far, and what remains to be done.
By Antenea Jimenez, Jeffery R. Webber, Susan Spronk, Jun 14th 2010
An interview with Antenea Jimenez, who is working with a national network of activists who are trying to strengthen Venezuela's communes. She discusses the important advances in the process, as well as the significant challenges that remain in the struggle to build a new form of popular power from below.
Venezuela celebrated International Women’s Day with a ceremony involving 200,000 women and some of Venezuela’s highest political female leaders. Also, a National Assembly committee is discussing women’s right to abortions.
Sheehan, mother of a child killed in Iraq, says she went to Venezuela for two reasons; because she was tired of the misinformation about Venezuela, and to be inspired and energized.
“I’m a woman with a new life since the Bolivarian Revolution knocked on my door,” said Pielrroc Montenegro, Maracaiban by birth and Andean by tradition, with glazed eyes full of nostalgia and gratitude.
