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Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela
November 20, 2007 ... and political activity; reducing the work week to 36 hours to promote more employment; ending the autonomy of ... Company's office in Evansville, IN and for the next six hours removed two tons of legal Ron Paul Dollars along with ... -
RCTV and Freedom of Speech in Venezuela
June 2, 2007 ... of the media landscape, in that it mandates that five hours per day (between 5am and 11pm) be produced by ... be, broadcasting anti-government opinions and analysis 24 hours a day. The other pro-government channels, such as most ... -
Chavez Proposes Changes to Venezuela’s Constitution to Pave Way for Socialism
August 17, 2007 ... 90 of the constitution to reduce the workday from eight hours to six, saying, the objective is that workers have ... -
Venezuela's Bad Example
November 28, 2007 The Venezuelan political process is systematically demonized not just by the bourgeois media but also by some supposed progressives. They tend to focus more on the figure of Chavez than on what that deepening social change means for the great mass of people marginalised and oppressed since independence from the Spanish colonial centre. -
Was Failure Chavez's Masterplan?
December 6, 2007 ... what he proposes to achieve is no secret: in thousands of hours of media appearances his visions of social justice, ... -
Is Free Speech Really at Stake? Venezuela and RCTV
May 23, 2007 ... air mostly entertainment and one, Globovisión, is a 24-hours news channel. On Globovisión, Wilpert says, “the ... -
Five Years Later, Venezuelan Ambassador Reflects on US-Backed Coup
April 11, 2007 ... by a would-be dictator.” But within forty-eight hours, following massive street protests, Chavez was back in ... back in palace. And we could do that only probably ten hours later, because, as you know, there was a media ... -
Venezuela: Between Ballots and Bullets
November 15, 2007 ... labor contracts. The amendment reducing the workday to 6 hours is vehemently opposed by the opposition led by the big ... -
Hugo Chávez, the Media and Everybody Else
January 20, 2007 ... in certain designated areas for the next 18 months. A few hours before taking the oath of office on January 10 for his ... -
Venezuela's PSUV and Socialism from Below
March 28, 2007 While both internal and external critics of the Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) speak of an impending authoritarianism, their stance obscures the pernicious influence of party bureaucracies masquerading as "pluralism." In the end, if the party's formation blunts the influence of these bureaucracies, this "crisis" may be a blessing in disguise for the PSUV and the Revolution as a whole. -
“Art of Peace” International Conference in Venezuela
May 11, 2007 It must have been the first time in history that a country’s Defense Minister and Armed Forces Chief ever organized a Peace Conference! But that is exactly what General Raúl Isaías Baduel did in the Venezuelan Defense Ministry Auditorium, Caracas, on Friday April 27 and Saturday April 28 2007. -
Venezuela's Reform Battle Continues as Chavez Ally Splits
November 14, 2007 ... rapidly about the meaning of Baduel’s statements. Within hours, two former defence ministers, general Jorge Garcia ... -
Venezuela's Social Democracy Hits A Speed Bump
December 4, 2007 One electoral defeat is disheartening but changes nothing. Venezuela's struggle for social democracy continues under a man who has worked nine years to build it. Don't ever count him out or his strong popular support. -
Why The Constitutional Reform In Venezuela Went Down And Where To Next!
December 10, 2007 Why, when approximately 7.1 million people voted for Chavez in the presidential elections in December 2006, did nearly 3 million of them abstain in the constitutional reform referendum a year later? -
Making Victory of Defeat: What Next for Venezuela?
December 10, 2007 While we reflect on errors made, we should not lose sight of the unique opportunities posed by this turn of events. Sunday's referendum defeat marks a critical juncture in the Bolivarian Revolution: with the most direct, state-led path to socialism effectively blocked, Chávez will have no other alternative than to rely on the mobilization of the popular revolutionary masses.