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The Bolivarian Process after Chavez: The Hour Has Arrived
June 7, 2013 Radical left current within the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Marea Socialista (Socialist Tide), takes stock of the current situation facing the Bolivarian process, and argues that the government must take radical actions to “save the revolution”. -
50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
March 9, 2013 ... pension equivalent to 80% of the minimum wage. 39. Working hours were reduced to 6 hours a day and 36 hours per week, without loss of pay. 40. ... energy supply, by oil subsidies of between 40% to 60%. 47. Venezuela also provides assistance to disadvantaged ... -
Letter from Fidel Castro to Hugo Chavez upon Chavez’s Departure from Cuba
February 18, 2013 ... just before Chavez’s return to Venezuela in the early hours of Monday 18 February. Dear Hugo, I am extremely ... and humbly, without fear of the years, months, days or hours that we might have left to live in the most critical ... -
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Chavez: the Motive-Hunting of a Malignant NGO
March 7, 2013 ... death of Hugo Chavez provoked HRW to immediately (within hours) smear the Chavez government's legacy. "Chávez's ... -
What Chávez Left Behind: The Streets of a Continent and a Bolivarian Revolution of Everyday Life
March 12, 2013 ... from their helmets. Chávez captivated the stadium for hours, talking about baseball and Simón Bolívar, ... Together, they had to pressure the officials for two hours, but ended up returning to their community with an ... -
Why There Are No Aussie Pavons: Political Youth Engagement in Australia and Venezuela
August 20, 2013 ... with thousands of other Venezuelans Pavon lined up for hours in the sweltering heat of Caracas to catch a glimpse of ... Pavon had left her home days earlier. After more than 20 hours in buses, she finally arrived in the capital, Caracas, ... from the Australia Institute unsurprisingly found that 47% of 17-25 year olds “believe no party best represents ... -
Student Activists Inspired by Venezuela’s Revolution
July 26, 2013 ... A journey that could have taken some people up to two hours has been cut to ten minutes. People’s lives are ... Arbol which “has invested $60 million and involved over 47,000 people from local communities to plant 43 million ... -
The United States Shows its Contempt for Venezuelan Democracy
April 23, 2013 ... the probability that extending the audit to the remaining 47% of machines could change the result of the election: ... -
International Crisis Group Against Venezuela
May 21, 2013 The International Crisis Group (ICG) sells itself as “working to prevent conflict worldwide” but there is one country where their mission looks more like promoting rather than preventing conflict. Exhibit A is their report on Venezuela, released recently. -
Thatcher is Dead—Long Live Chávez!
April 12, 2013 ... exactly eleven years ago today, which was reversed within 47 hours by the same masses that coup planners had so thoroughly ... -
Interview with Nicolas Maduro: "Until the Last Day, Chavez Wanted to Live"
April 2, 2013 ... had been another recurrence. He had talked for nearly 10 hours in the National Assembly, I believe on the 15th of ... me in to tell me this personally, during more than six hours of conversation, in the early morning of December 6, in ... -
Call of Duty: Feeding the Venezuela Haters or Just Dumb Fun?
December 7, 2013 ... wasteland of shelled out cities. During the ten or so hours of shooting/stabbing/nuking anything that moves (no ... African shanty town with a high powered machine gun a few hours later. I started slipping away from the series around ... gamers engaging in ridiculous fantasies after working hours isn't the problem; policy makers doing the same thing ... -
Yo Soy Chavez, Tu Eres Chavez, Todos Somos Chavez
March 7, 2013 In the past hours my inbox is bursting with messages of condolences from ... was Begonia, and she was telling me how she had walked for hours to see Chavez pass by. When teased by other nuns for ... -
Scarcity and Starvation? Venezuelan Food FAQs
October 5, 2013 ... 7: Is it “normal” for Venezuelans to spend four hours waiting in line to do their shopping? Short answer: As ... BBC Radio 4 viewers have been led to believe, waiting five hours in line at a supermarket is not “normal”. Lines at ... mostly consisting of once weekly shopping trips. Four hours isn't impossible, but anecdotal evidence from myself ... -
Nicolas Maduro's Speech at the Funeral of President Hugo Chavez
April 2, 2013 ... and your eyes looking towards Christ. In previous days, hours before the announcements of December 8 th , a group of ... as his own son. And one difficult day, in the early hours of the morning I had to go there, to his bedroom. We ... so that I can sit down to write them down during these hours.” We did not fulfill that order, we weren’t able ...