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Remember when the international corporate media broke the story about the law proposed by the Venezuelan opposition-controlled National Assembly that would have privatized Venezuelan state enterprises and returned land granted to communal organisations to private hands? No we don't either.
Throughout 2016, the international media – hell bent on portraying Venezuela as a land of apocalyptic ruin – chose not to cover the right-wing Venezuelan opposition’s ongoing efforts to destabilize the country, including a parliamentary coup attempt as well as whole range of glaringly unconstitutional laws advanced by the National Assembly, such as an amnesty law that would have enacted impunity for hundreds of violent crimes, and a notorious housing privatization law.
Nor did the mainstream media pay any mind to the diverse grassroots strategies being developed to weather the storm, putting into practice day after day, different visions and projects aimed at transforming of the productive apparatus, pointing towards an ever more communal horizon.
Only Venezuelanalysis.com was there to bring you continuous, nuanced, coverage of the ongoing right-wing onslaught against the Bolivarian Revolution as well as the scarsely reported outpouring of creative responses from below. These experiences are not just a testimony to the longevity of the Bolivarian Revolution, but essential to ongoing international leftist debates on how to construct a genuinely emancipatory alternative to really existing capitalism.
As right-wing forces return to power across the continent, attempting to roll-back the gains of progressive movements, alternative media like VA are more vital than ever.
Can you imagine a Brazil- or Argentina-style counter-revolution in Venezuela without VA’s independent on the ground reporting? Not only do we aim to provide a much-needed critique of Venezuela’s opposition, so notably lacking in the mainstream press, but we also act as a vital platform for historically marginalized voices, without whom a picture of Venezuelan reality is incomplete.
Therefore, as 2016 comes to a close, VA needs your support now more than ever to continue and amplify its coverage.
This holiday season we need to raise US $10,000 to keep us online in 2017. If each of our regular readers took two minutes out their day to donate just $5 dollars, we could meet our running costs two times over.
So please consider donating to Venezuela’s only independent, English language media outlet, to ensure balanced coverage of the Bolivarian Revolution into 2017. We are 100% funded by readers like you.
Sincerely,
The VA team, December 2016
Gregory Wilpert, Jan Kühn, Tamara Pearson, Rachael Boothroyd Rojas, Ryan Mallett-Outtrim, Lucas Koerner, Jeanette Charles.
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“Venezuelanalysis publishes nuanced articles on internal developments in Venezuela, but not so with regard to international relations. With the activation of the U.S. Fourth Fleet last year (without consulting any Latin American nation), the U.S. decision the following year to utilize seven bases in Colombia, as well as the escalation of the war in Afghanistan (including the mass use of drones) at a time when withdrawal from Iraq is highly incomplete, there is little doubt as to who represents the greatest threat to world peace. Venezuelanalysis provides important information on this front as well, as it applies to Latin America. In short, Venezuelanalysis offers useful detail and analysis on pivotal issues that is unavailable from other media sources.”
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“Around the world the private media dominates the airwaves, the press, the internet, depriving people of their own voice and popular expression. Internationally and internally there is a big campaign of private media lies against our revolutionary Bolivarian process, against our president and against the Venezuelan people. We are struggling against imperialist domination, for sovereignty, for control over our own resources, for control over our own destinies and to break the logic of exploitation of the capitalist system. I want to congratulate Venezuelanalysis.com for reflecting the reality of our struggle.”
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In fact, the whole region is bubbling with debate and discussion on participatory democracy, 21st century socialism and sovereignty while taking into account the history and traditions of each country. For this reason Venezuelan Analysis is of great assistance in my work and thus I encourage all those who are interested in Latin America and the Caribbean to strongly support Venezuela Analysis.”
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We are proud to have been the first in Canada to expose the blatant lie generated by the US state department and rebroadcast by the CBC in April 2002 that the crowds gathered at the Presidential Palace after President Chavez was kidnapped were there to 'cheer the coup d'etat'! We have been carrying ongoing reports on developments in Venezuela, and we thank venezuelanalysis.com for their direct assistance to us in helping take the truth of the Bolivarian revolution to our audiences whenever we've asked.”
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