Bolivarian Project

Following its closure last weekend, La Planta prison in Caracas is to be converted into a community centre using proposals from local community organisations.

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Rather than Disneyland tourism, rather than humiliating “third word” selling itself to the  rest tourism, in stunning Venezuela, tourism is taking a new turn towards community and state run exploration of history, culture, and biodiversity.

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Venezuela's paralympics 40-person team is grateful to the government of Chavez which has poured unprecedented resources into grassroots sports.

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The head of Venezuela’s National Intelligence Services (Sebin), Miguel Rodriguez, revealed last Sunday further details of a plan by right-wing opposition activists to destabilize the nation’s political environment in an interview broadcast on the private television station Televen. 

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Marea Socialista (Socialist Tide), a radical current within the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, argue that the construction of a collective leadership is necessary for the deepening of the Bolivarian revolution in the coming period. 

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After 12 years in office, Chavez remains overwhelmingly favored for reelection in October. Given the alternative, most Venezuelans have a clear choice.

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For all revolutionaries it is perfectly clear that 2012 will be a defining year of important challenges. Currently, the Bolivarian revolution is at a cross-road. Either we radicalise the revolution and we deepen its changes, or the reformist politics which seek to simply regulate capitalism, as opposed to eliminating it, could lead the revolution to suffer a dangerous defeat in both the long and medium term.

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Here we feature an excerpt from the documentary film Inside the Revolution: A Journey Into the Heart of Venezuela, released in August 2009 by Alborada Films.

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Steve Ellner discusses Michael Lebowitz's writings in The Socialist Alternative on the need to place transformation of values at the center of socialist construction, largely based on Lebowitz's texperience in Venezuela and support for Chavez's "humanist objectives".

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An interview with Victor Rodriguez of the Pluri-National Alternative Media Collective – The People’s Correspondents, based in Táchira state. The People’s Correspondents spans across Latin America and also has links in North America and Europe. The Venezuelan division was set up in 2008, when Rodriguez moved to Venezuela from his native Uruguay. 

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