By Pablo Navarrete / Alborada Films - The Real News, Apr 20th 2012
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.
Exactly ten years ago, on April 11, 2002, a group of rebelling military officers, together with opposition leaders and the mainstream media, staged a coup d’état against Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the April 11, 2002 coup, we are featuring the award-winning Venezuelan documentary Llaguno Bridge: Keys to a Massacre.
By Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network & Coral Winter, Feb 26th 2012
A trailer for the up-and-coming documentary, "Chasing Chavez". The story explores the Bolivarian revolution through the eyes of Australian citizen, Coral Winter.
By Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network in Sydney, Feb 5th 2012
Venezuelan ambassador to Australia, Nelson Davila, speaks about the significance of the events on the 4th of February 1992, when a group of civilians and young army officers, including now Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias, attempted to over throw the government of Carlos Andres Perez. The civic- military rebellion transformed Venezuela’s national political panorama and is now viewed as one of the key antecedents to the development of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Excerpts from a documentary on Venezuela's ELAM (Latin Amercan School of Medicine), the 'daughter' of the Cuban ELAM, but with some different features.
By Iain Bruce / Socialist Resistance, Dec 6th 2011
In this video as part of his contribution to a recent meeting entitled “Neoliberalism and Resistance in Latin America” held be Socialist Resistance in London, Iain Bruce, journalist and author of The Real Venezuela: Making Socialism in the 21st Century, gives his analysis of the worker control movement in Venezuela, particularly focusing on the Guyana region of basic steel, iron, and aluminium industries in the east of the country.
Venezuela's socialism of the 21st Century and how its applied, on a large scale, in the Comunal Socialist City Simon Bolivar. Located near the city of Guasdualito, Apure state, the communal city includes over 8000 agricultural families, divided into eight communal complexes, over 115,000 hectares.
In this video, Fray Silvera talks about how the cooperative started with 100% government support and now they are 80% self managed. Their aim is to be fully self funded and then to help others. They wish to be an example for others to follow by raising consciousness that as campesinos, they can do it themselves. This story, as told by Fray, is inspirational.
PhD. candidate, George Ciccariello-Maher, talks about the historical development of Venezuela's popular and revolutionary movements and their relationship with Hugo Chavez. In his new book, "A People's History of the Bolivarian Revolution", he argues against the incessant focus on the figure of Chavez within the revolution, commenting: "Chavez did not make the revolution, the revolution made Chavez".
Michael Albert is an American activist, economist, speaker, and writer. Here he talks about Venezuela and the alternative Latin America trading bloc, ALBA or Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas.
Growing Change follows the filmmaker's journey to understand why current food systems leave hundreds of millions of people in hunger. It's a journey to understand how the world will feed itself in the future in the face of major environmental challenges.
PROLESA is a small dairy cooperative in the Venezuelan state of Tachira. It is located in a river delta about 50 kms from San Cristobal. The community is made up of about 250 farming families and 25 of those families are involved in the PROLESA Dairy Cooperative.
