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Venezuela: Counter-revolution Throws down a New Challenge
March 31, 2010 In the build up to the September elections, the right-wing opposition is preparing on several fronts. Economic sabotage is one of them, as are the manoeuvres on the part of right-wing elements within the Bolivarian movement itself. Meanwhile, all this is having a radicalising effect on the left. -
Venezuela News Summary #95
April 26, 2010 Large Crowds Turn Out for 200-Year Independence Celebrations in Venezuela | ALBA Summit in Venezuela vows to fight Climate Change with System Change | Venezuela Celebrates ‘Day of the Bolivarian Militias, the Armed People and the April Revolution’ | China Offers Largest Credit to Venezuela | Russia and Venezuela Deepen Ties with Energy, Military Deals | Venezuela and Uruguay Trade Oil for Food, Promote Latin American Integration | Venezuela Criticizes Bias in Inter-American Human Rights Commission Annual Report | Eight Colombians Arrested on Suspicion of Spying in Venezuela | Venezuela Coming Out of Electricity Crisis | Two More Minister Changes in Venezuela | Venezuelans Eat More and Are Better Nourished than Ten Years Ago | Analysis article excerpt: Fighting Corruption or Persecuting Political Opponents in Venezuela? A Response to the New York Times -
Venezuela on the UN Climate Talks
December 10, 2010 ... of Copenhagen we left that room. We stood there for 36 hours, actually, without sleeping and without eating and ... -
Colombia and Venezuela Rattle Their Sabres: Uribe's Parting Shot
August 10, 2010 ... closed and Colombian diplomats in Caracas were given 72 hours to vacate the country. The Venezuelan armed forces, ... -
Latin America & Twenty-First Century Socialism: Inventing to Avoid Mistakes, Chapter 1
July 28, 2010 ... is in favor of a preferential option for the poor.” 47 Today—in the midst of the crisis of neoliberalism—this ... are based on the following information: “in the early hours of Sunday, June 28 two important State department ... -
ALBA and the Promise of Cooperative Development
December 13, 2010 ... figure had been raised to 32 percent, by April 1, 1955 to 47 percent, and by June 30, 1956 to 59 percent. In 1957, ... -
Latin America & Twenty-First Century Socialism: Inventing to Avoid Mistakes, Chapter 2
August 17, 2010 ... steel works that has proposed devoting, for instance, two hours of the working day to study—as those used to measure ... to transform the workday, so that a given number of hours is set aside for educating workers; and requiring ... in the last three “civilizing or societal bands,” 46-47. 69. ↩ Ibid., 48. 70. ↩ Chávez, ... -
Continuation of Terrorist Plans from the US
October 7, 2010 ... addition to those discussed with them during a number of hours of exchanges with chiefs and experts of the Ministry of ... -
The Perennial Debate over Socialist Goals Played Out in Venezuela
April 18, 2010 ... an amendment to reduce the work week from 44 to 36 hours, in spite of Venezuela's status as a developing nation. ... -
Hugo Chávez’s First Decade in Office: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings
April 23, 2010 ... which would have reduced the work week from 44 to 36 hours, placed cultural and social goals ahead of economic ... and to close stores that overcharge for 24–48 hours. In addition, CANTV provides discounted monthly rates ... -
Where Is the Venezuelan Revolution Going?
November 1, 2010 The recent election results revealed both the strong and the weak points of the Bolivarian Revolution. It showed the loyalty and determination of the workers and peasants to defend the Revolution and defeat the counterrevolution. But how long can this loyalty be maintained unless the Revolution is carried through in a determined manner? -
Venezuela and the BBC
February 16, 2010 ... had us in his car unleashed an unrelenting diatribe for 4 hours. We were unable to get a word in! To experience this ... -
FSLN on the Fifth Socialist International: Globalise struggle and hope!
February 22, 2010 A little over ten years ago, walking down a Managua street, I noticed on a large wall a sign with the famous phrase launched in 1848 by the first two great maestros of the revolutionary movement, "Workers of all countries unite! " but with an appendix inscribed in brackets: “Final Warning.” -
U.S. - Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolution
January 7, 2010 ... balance of power within the military. Within forty-eight hours, Chavez was released from captivity and restored to ... -
Academy Award-Winning Filmmaker Oliver Stone Tackles Latin America’s Political Upheaval in "South of the Border"
June 23, 2010 In his latest film, releasing this week in the United States, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone takes a road trip across South America, meeting with seven presidents from the continent.