Venezuela’s Afro Descendent Front Proposes Program of Action to Confront Racism and Fascism

Mar 24th 2017

“Afro-Venezuelans Deserve Reparations that go Beyond the Symbolic”

On the 163rd anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Venezuela, Francisco Tovar, Executive Director of the Institute of African Diaspora Studies (IEA) talks...

Mar 21st 2017

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution Embraces its African Roots

Venezuela honors African and Diasporic political, cultural and economic traditions at its one-of-a-kind Center of African, American, and Caribbean Wisdoms....

May 13th 2016

Caracas “Afro Chávez” Forum Inaugurates Afro-Venezuelan Month

Afro-Venezuelan revolutionaries came together on Tuesday for a forum to commemorate the Black political legacy of Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution....

Oct 26th 2015

First Black Woman Independence Fighter is Honoured in Venezuela’s National Mausoleum

Revered independence combatant Juana Ramirez’s symbolic remains were transferred over to the Pantheon of Heroes this past Friday in an official state...

Jun 25th 2015

Remains of Afro-Venezuelan Independence Hero Transferred to National Heroes Mausoleum

The symbolic remains of Afro-Venezuelan independence hero, Pedro Camejo, better known as Negro Primero, were transferred to the country’s “Hall of Heroes”...

Jun 24th 2015

Venezuela's Maduro Backs CARICOM Proposal for Slavery Reparations

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has declared that his government would support an initiative by the Community of the Caribbean (CARICOM) to demand...

Aug 20th 2014

ALBA Expresses Solidarity with Protesters in Ferguson

The Latin American and Caribbean bloc asked U.S. authorities to carry out a fair investigation into the death of Michael Brown.

Jun 3rd 2014

Afro-Youth, Afro-Venezuelanness and Afro-Autonomy

Jesus Chucho Garcia, Venezuelan author, commentator, professor, co-founder of the AfroVenezuelan Network and former Ambassador to Angola, frequently...

Mar 27th 2014

Racism Sin Vergüenza in the Venezuelan Counter-Revolution

Racism is one of the main engines and expressions of the current counter-revolution. In Venezuela the revolutionary struggle to end white supremacy and for...

Mar 28th 2012

African Descendents and Racism in Venezuelan Private Media

This interview examines the extent and ways that Venezuela is still affected by racism following the publication of a racist cartoon by a private newspaper.

Apr 29th 2011

Afro-Venezuelans and the Struggle Against Racism

In this Fact Sheet released by the Venezuelan Embassy in the United States, readers are provided details as to the unprecedented progress being made...