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Haitian-Venezuelan Politician and Solidarity Activist Assassinated Outside of Caracas

Mar 28th 2016

Fritz Saint Louis. (archive)

Haitian-Venezuelan political leader and solidarity activist Fritz Saint Louis, 54, was shot dead in his home by masked gunman on Saturday evening.

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Tupamaro Deputy Legislator Assassinated by Alleged Paramilitaries

Mar 26th 2016

César Vera. (Archive)

Cesar Vera (40) was shot by in Táchira at approximately 8.30pm on Thursday night in what authorities suspect to be a politically motivated assassination. 

 

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Collectives Hijack Polar Company Trucks in Caracas, Protest Hoarding

Feb 19th 2016

Photo attached: “Less beer, more food. Release the food Lorenzo Mendoza!” (ElNacional)

The trucks were daubed with graffiti such as “release the food” and “we don’t want poison, we want food for the people”.  

 

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Venezuela’s Maduro Announces String of Emergency Economic Measures

Feb 18th 2016

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addressing the nation. (@PresidencialVen)

The economic initiatives include changes to the country’s multi-tiered exchange rate, a rise in the domestic price of gasoline, the implementation of a new tax system, and placing more power over food distribution in the hands of organised communities.

 

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Venezuelans Protest Privatisation of Social Housing as Parliament Approves in First Discussion

Jan 30th 2016

The march set out from Plaza Morelo in Bellas Artes and headed for the city centre (Jonas Holldack, Venezuelanalysis).

Venezuelan housing rights groups took to the streets of Caracas on Thursday to reject the political opposition’s plans to privatise social housing. Parliament also approved the proposed privatisation law in first discussion. 

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Urban Agriculture Minister Vacates Post after Just Two Weeks

Jan 25th 2016

Emma Ortega was a well respected campesina activist and agronomist (AVN)

Grassroots Chavistas have taken to social media to express their discontent after the Urban Agriculture Minister, Emma Ortega, inexplicably left her cabinet position just two weeks after having been nominated by Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. 

 

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Venezuela's Maduro Launches Sexual Diversity Council

Dec 17th 2015

Activist groups argued sexual diversity rights should be a key priority of Venezuela's socialists. (Prensa Presidencial)

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro inagurated a new Presidential Council of Sexual Diversity in order to advance the rights of LGBT people and promised to pass a law against discrimination based on sexual orientation. 

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Maduro Meets with Thousands in People’s Street Parliament, Calls for "Self-Critical Revolutionary Debate"

Dec 10th 2015

President Nicolas Maduro outside Miraflores palace. (Prensa Miraflores)

Thousands accompanied President Nicolas Maduro yesterday in a people's street parliament organized outside Miraflores palace in response the crushing defeat suffered by the socialist government in legislative elections Sunday.

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Venezuelan Social Movements Protest Israeli “Genocide” Outside UN HQ in Caracas

Oct 16th 2015

"In Gaza the houses always had their doors open, when the children sang, the people dreamed. Today, everything is different

Venezuelan social movements gathered outside the United Nations' headquarters in Caracas on Wednesday to protest an ongoing Israeli crackdown against Palestinians in the occupied territories, which has claimed the lives of at least 35 Palestinians since October 1.

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Venezuelan President Maduro Meets with Black Leaders in Harlem

Sep 29th 2015

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaking at the conference in Harlem (Photo: teleSUR)

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Social Movement Victory: Venezuela’s Maduro Derails Plan for New Carbon Mines

Sep 4th 2015

Ecologist Jorge Guerrero was one of the many activists to draw attention to the environmental disaster that would be caused by a

After months of grassroots organizing, a “correction” of the presidential Decree 1,606 was published in last week’s Official Gazette revoking plans for new coal mines and a carbon-electric plant in Venezuela’s western region, in acknowledgement of the damage it would cause for the ecosystem and indigenous communities in the region.

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Attacks on Venezuelan Commune and Farmland Reported, Crops Destroyed

Aug 19th 2015

Edison Diaz (center) accuses Barinas state governor Adan Chavez of ordering a raid to evict farmworkers and destroy their crops.

Over the past week, two different Venezuelan groups have stepped forward to denounce illegitimate raids conducted by National Guard officials (GNB) against peasants on disputed farmland in Barinas state, and on the agricultural commune El Maizal, respectively

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Hundreds Attend Caracas Forum on Kurdish Revolution in Rojava

Aug 6th 2015

On Tuesday, two hundred people attended an event held by the Kurdish Solidarity Committee-Venezuela in Caracas on the Kurdish liberation struggle in northern Syria.

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Venezuelan Social Movements Rally Against State Coal Mining Decree

Jul 30th 2015

Banner reads: The Wayuu of Socuy Oppose Coal Mining (Photo: Lucas Koerner)

Activists from diverse social movements gathered outside Venezuela's Ministry of Energy and Mining in Caracas this morning to demand the repeal of a controversial presidential decree authorizing coal mining in the country's northwestern Perija mountain range located in Zulia state.

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Venezuela Defends Human Rights Gains Before UNHRC Amid Rightwing NGO Attacks

Jul 1st 2015

The UN Human Rights Council has been accused of silencing the voices of Venezuelan non-government organisations which contradict

Venezuela testified before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Tuesday, defending the country’s advances in human rights under the Bolivarian Revolution amid allegations of abuse by opposition NGOs. 

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