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Production and Conflict in El Maizal Commune
September 7, 2018 ... article we examine the productive activities of El Maizal Commune, based on our visit in May. We also look at the relation between ... that emerge as the communal project moves forward. El Maizal Commune spreads over the states of Lara and Portuguesa, grouping 22 ... -
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 national ... -
Maduro Defends Venezuelan Commune’s Land Rights in Face of Supreme Court Mandate
December 16, 2014 ... on Friday his staunch support of the agricultural commune El Maizal after their communal property title was revoked by a Supreme Court judge earlier that week. Initially, communards of El Maizal rejected the December 9 court decision and called on Maduro and other ... -
Commune Activists File Appeal with Supreme Court Over Mayorship Ban
December 22, 2017 ... Court (TSJ) Wednesday, demanding that the body recognise El Maizal commune leader Angel Prado as mayor. Prado, who was elected by more ... ANC to budge on its decision. The lack of a response led El Maizal’s communal parliament to vote Tuesday in favor of a trip to Caracas to ... -
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 heels of an attempt to ... Most Venezuelanalysis readers know about El Maizal , both as an expression of communal popular power and because we ... of the communal project that you are involved in. El Maizal is a productive commune in rural Venezuela, nested between two states in ... -
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 photo of a police ... pic.twitter.com/dU50pcXwJ4 — Comuna El Maizal (@ComunaElMaizal) January 7, 2018 Tweet reads: We ... -
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 Electoral Council ... 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 ... -
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 struggles of the ... since Chávez called for the conformation of the El Maizal commune in 2009 on lands recently expropriated from large landowners, ... -
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 reportedly destroyed ... Chavez to respond to the accusation. The commune El Maizal, which straddles the states of Lara and Portuguesa, was also raided by ... -
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: geographical areas ... In the northwestern plains and mountains, El Maizal is one of these successful communes. A cooperative of around 2,000 ... -
Interview with Angel Prado (Part I): 'The commune holds the solution to the crisis'
August 16, 2018 El Maizal commune is located in the middle of the Venezuelan plains, between the ... communal spokesman, about the political project that El Maizal is pushing forward, the questioned mayor’s elections of December, the ... in this territory and with the work we have been doing, El Maizal has found itself in a collective leadership role for all this area 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 plains, between the ... communal spokesman, about the political project that El Maizal is pushing forward, the questioned mayor’s elections of December, the ... should enter into the new constitution. El Maizal produces corn but sells its harvest to the state company Agropatria (1). ... -
Maduro Visits Disgruntled Campesino Communities on Campaign Trail, Converses with Communal Leader Prado
April 30, 2018 ... campesino communities this weekend where he met with El Maizal Commune spokesperson Angel Prado. As part of the XII National ... for flour production in Carora was Angel Prado from El Maizal Commune, which is comprised of twenty-two communal councils located on ... -
Venezuela: Communal Activists Protest ANC to Demand Permission for Local Candidate
November 28, 2017 ... ) –Nearly a thousand members of the El Maizal Commune in Lara state marched on Venezuela’s National Constituent ... because our rights are being violated,” explains El Maizal member Jose Peraza. Prado has been tied up in a protracted ... pic.twitter.com/OMPFrJDtxo — Comuna El Maizal (@ComunaElMaizal) November 28, 2017 “Although the ... -
People of Simon Planas Protest Swearing-In of PSUV Mayoral Candidate
December 12, 2017 ... grassroots leader Angel Prado, a spokesperson for the El Maizal commune. Prado was elected as a delegate to the National Constituent ... and repression of the people's voice,” tweeted El Maizal commune, who have condemned the presence of the National Guard to ...