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Production and Conflict in El Maizal Commune
September 7, 2018 In this article we examine the productive activities of El Maizal Commune, based on our visit in May. We also look at ... that emerge as the communal project moves forward. El Maizal Commune spreads over the states of Lara and ... such as ourselves are drawn to the experience. El Maizal has also conquered political space outside its ... -
Resistance in Images: A Productive Workers' Battle in El Maizal Commune
February 17, 2019 ... the " Productive Workers’ Army " went to the flagship El Maizal commune in Lara state with the goal of helping ... sessions "battles." The helping hand they extended to El Maizal was the thirteenth battle the group has undertaken in ... -
El Maizal Commune Leads by Example, Takes on Venezuela State Superstructure
February 6, 2018 ... with supporting images from Voces Urgentes, LaraTVeC, El Maizal, Commune Negro Miguel, aporrea, VTV and El Sacudon. El Maizal: A Productive Communal Model On March 5th, 2009, the ... Lara which would soon become the heart of the commune El Maizal. The commune was organized that same year in response ... -
Maduro Defends Venezuelan Commune’s Land Rights in Face of Supreme Court Mandate
December 16, 2014 ... Friday his staunch support of the agricultural commune El Maizal after their communal property title was revoked by a ... Court judge earlier that week. Initially, communards of El Maizal rejected the December 9 court decision and called on ... as set forth by the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez. El Maizal was formed in Lara state during a 2009 initiative led ... -
Commune Activists File Appeal with Supreme Court Over Mayorship Ban
December 22, 2017 ... (TSJ) Wednesday, demanding that the body recognise El Maizal commune leader Angel Prado as mayor. Prado, who was ... to budge on its decision. The lack of a response led El Maizal’s communal parliament to vote Tuesday in favor of a ... that justice be done for the people of Simon Planas,” El Maizal Commune tweeted. Hemos seguido todos los pasos legales ... -
Angel Prado: Grapes of Wrath in Rural Venezuela
June 5, 2018 ... interviewed Angel Prado, a key organizer of El Maizal Commune[1]. The conversation followed hard on the ... in Venezuela. Most Venezuelanalysis readers know about El Maizal , both as an expression of communal popular power and ... of the communal project that you are involved in. El Maizal is a productive commune in rural Venezuela, nested ... -
Mining Project Threatens Local Population and Nature Preserve
May 25, 2019 ... territory, Simon Planas is also the home of El Maizal , a flagship rural commune. Photo documentation ... -
Commune Activist Angel Prado to be Investigated by Regional Police
January 8, 2018 ... against him had been opened by regional police. The El Maizal Commune where Prado is a leading activist tweeted a ... @NicolasMaduro pic.twitter.com/dU50pcXwJ4 — Comuna El Maizal (@ComunaElMaizal) January 7, 2018 Tweet reads: We ... summons from Lara police. Today this notice arrived at Maizal Commune with no explanation, citing Angel Prado to an ... -
Venezuelan Electoral Authorities Give Green Light to Mayoral Appeals in Lara, Monagas
January 31, 2018 ... in Lara and Monagas states. Last Thursday, El Maizal commune in Lara confirmed on Twitter that the National ... citing the ANC’s veto on Prado. Both the PPT and El Maizal have celebrated the CNE’s acceptance of the appeal on their respective social media accounts, while El Maizal vowed to “keep struggling” until “justice is ... -
In Venezuela, Social, Popular and Communal Unity Is Not an Illusion
August 5, 2019 ... Ángel Prado, the spokesperson of the Socialist Commune El Maizal, during the second national meeting of communal leaders. The Socialist Commune El Maizal is a Venezuelan peasant organization comprising of 22 ... and immediate objectives of the Socialist Commune El Maizal? Ángel Prado : The strategic objective of the El ... -
It's the Pig's Fault...
July 17, 2019 El Maizal Commune expropriated local installations of the ... communal administration, report that the newly-named El Maizal Pig Farm currently has 579 piglets, 285 sows ... and Production Committees] CLAP scheme . On July 7, El Maizal spokesperson Angel Prado publicly denounced government ... -
Revolutionaries Gather in Solidarity with Communes of Simón Planas
March 3, 2018 ... popular movements from across Venezuela gathered in the El Maizal Socialist Commune in gestures of solidarity with the ... since Chávez called for the conformation of the El Maizal commune in 2009 on lands recently expropriated from ... increased economic sanctions, the gathering in The El Maizal commune became a space for interchange of experiences ... -
Attacks on Venezuelan Commune and Farmland Reported, Crops Destroyed
August 19, 2015 ... in Barinas state, and on the agricultural commune El Maizal, respectively. Over a thousand acres of crops were ... upon Chavez to respond to the accusation. The commune El Maizal, which straddles the states of Lara and Portuguesa, ... at food production. This is not the first time El Maizal has been the target of aggression, and representatives ... -
Municipalism in Venezuela Offers a Pathway Beyond Authoritarianism
November 2, 2018 ... origins of the revolution: in bottom-up communalism. El Maizal Commune Venezuela has more than 1,000 communes: ... communities. In the northwestern plains and mountains, El Maizal is one of these successful communes. A cooperative of around 2,000 families of farmers, El Maizal has, since 2009, taken over 600 hectares of ... -
Interview with Angel Prado (Part II): 'The commune holds the solution to the crisis'
August 22, 2018 El Maizal commune is located in the middle of the Venezuelan ... communal spokesman, about the political project that El Maizal is pushing forward, the questioned mayor’s elections ... the commune should enter into the new constitution. El Maizal produces corn but sells its harvest to the state ...