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Death of a 'Dictator': Chavez and the Media

By Al Jazeera, Mar 9th 2013

As Venezuelans mourn the death of President Hugo Chavez, there has been an understandable rush to deliver the final verdict on his record and legacy.

As far as most mainstream western media outlets are concerned, the judgment is clear. His death marks the end of a revolution; he leaves behind a dangerously divided country and an economy in shambles. 

But how accurate is this picture?

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Chavez Democratized Venezuela Making it the Most Equal Country in Latin America

By Gregory Wilpert - Real News, Mar 6th 2013

Gregory Wilpert: Chavez led Venezuela to many accomplishments but leaves unsolved critical problems he hoped to address

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Chavez Democratized Venezuela Making it the Most Equal Country in Latin America

By Gregory Wilpert - Real News, Mar 6th 2013

Gregory Wilpert: Chavez led Venezuela to many accomplishments but leaves unsolved critical problems he hoped to address

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Chavez Returns Home; Venezuela's Bolivar Devalued

By The Real News, Feb 28th 2013

Greg Wilpert on the status of Chavez's health and why the devaluation was necessary to curb inflation

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Venezuela: Can the Revolution be Liberated from the Oil Economy?

By Green Left TV, Feb 4th 2013

The international media totally misreads the Venezuelan people on President Hugo Chavèz (currently battling serious illness) argues Professor Miguel Angel Nuñez, an adviser to Chavèz on agro-ecology, in an interview with Green Left TV. The interviewers were Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter, authors of Voices from Venezuela. Filmed and edited by Peter Boyle.

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Opposition Violence in Merida

By Anon, Jan 22nd 2013

Here is an example of the "nonviolent" students of the University of the Andes (ULA) in Mérida, Venezuela. Last week this anti-Chávez opposition group attacked a taxi that had a little girl no more than 5 years old inside.

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Debate: With Chávez Ailing, Venezuela’s Longstanding Divisions Threaten New Political Upheaval

By Democracy Now!, Jan 11th 2013

Venezuela has postponed today’s presidential inauguration as Hugo Chávez remains hospitalized in Cuba. The Venezuelan Supreme Court says Chávez is still president, but the opposition is calling for a caretaker government and new elections. We host a debate on Chávez’s presidency and what is next for Venezuela with Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue and adjunct professor at Georgetown University, and Miguel Tinker Salas, a Venezuelan-born professor at Pomona College and author of the forthcoming book, "Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know."

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Chavez celebrated on streets of Caracas

By Teresa Bo - Al Jazeera, Jan 8th 2013

Artists honour Hugo Chavez through street art in a bid to preserve his legacy.

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Venezuela's Housing Revolution

By The Real News, Dec 14th 2012

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Rafael Correa and Daniel Ortega express solidarity for Venezuela's Chávez

By The Guardian, Dec 11th 2012

Ecuador's president Rafael Correa makes an unscheduled visit to Havana on Monday and expresses his solidarity with Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez, who is in Cuba for cancer surgery. Speaking in Managua the Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega wishes Chávez a speedy recovery

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Palestinian delegation visits Venezuela

By Martin Markovits - Press TV, Dec 6th 2012

This week Venezuela was the first country to be visited by a Palestinian diplomatic delegation after the United Nations voted to grant Palestine non-member observer status.

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Chavez Increases Subsidized Food Budget by 41 Percent

By Press TV, Dec 3rd 2012

The Venezuelan government's subsidized food program is going to expand significantly in the next year. Government officials plan on putting these markets in the new housing projects that the government is currently building.

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Viva Venezuela! New documentary released

By RCG - Revolutionary Communist Group, Nov 15th 2012

The British political organization Revolutionary Communist Group has released a new documentary, Viva Venezuela, about the fight to build socialism in Venezuela and the 2012 elections.

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Eyewitness Impressions of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution

By Green Left Weekly TV, Oct 26th 2012

Several European activists participated in Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Brigade 2012 which witnessed the recent presidential election won convincingly by socialist President Hugo Chavez. Brigade participant Pip Hinman spoke in Caracas to Christian, a writer and activist with the German solidarity online publication Amerika21.de, about his impressions of the Bolivarian revolution. Film footage of the 3 million-strong October 4 Chavista election rally provided by Poul-Erik Jørgensen, a Danish participant in the Brigade

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Jody McIntyre: How Can Chavez be a Dictator?

By Revolutionary Communist Group UK, Oct 10th 2012

British activist currently out in Venezuela, Jody McIntyre, comments on the mainstream media's coverage of the Venezuelan process, as well as on the Guardian's Rory Carroll.

 

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