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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... communal spokesman, about the political project that El Maizal is pushing forward, the questioned mayor’s elections ... in this territory and with the work we have been doing, El Maizal has found itself in a collective leadership role for ... -
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 ... for flour production in Carora was Angel Prado from El Maizal Commune, which is comprised of twenty-two communal ... Chavista activists and the Bolivarian government. El Maizal Commune, which supported Prado’s December candidacy, ... -
National Assembly of Venezuelan Commune Leaders Vows to ‘Take the Offensive’
August 28, 2018 ... purview. The assembly was convened and organised by the El Maizal Commune and the Bolivar and Zamora Revolutionary ... Assembly (ANC) were present, including prominent El Maizal spokesperson Angel Prado , who was elected to the ANC ... Some of the better organised communes, such as El Maizal in Lara state, are working on the construction of a ... -
Solidarity Gathering with Simon Planas Commune Movement, A Place of Popular Unity
March 6, 2018 ... which leads us to the construction of socialism. The El Maizal commune [in Simon Plana municipality, Lara state] was ... of action from the [current] Bolivarian Government. On El Maizal and the construction of hegemony March 5 is upon us, ... of popular self-government: the socialist communes. The El Maizal commune is almost reaching its ninth anniversary. It ... -
Declaration: Meeting in Solidarity with the Commune Movement of Simon Planas
February 27, 2018 ... parties – gathered in a historic meeting in the El Maizal Commune in solidarity with the communes of the ... for the Bolivarian Revolution. With the example of the El Maizal Commune at the forefront, the participating ... Revolution, have assembled during these days in the El Maizal Socialist Commune, firstly, because we stand in ... -
Postcards from Popular Power in Venezuela
November 20, 2018 ... economic structures. Finally, participants heard from El Maizal Commune’s spokesman Ángel Prado . This is one of ... did not focus so much on the productive activities of El Maizal as on their impact. He stressed the importance of ... ability to address people’s needs. In the case of El Maizal, their priority has been food production. The next ... -
Angel Prado: The Solution to the Crisis Is in Our Hands
May 15, 2018 ... [i] [TV episode] number 344 from the Socialist Commune El Maizal [ii] . In the live show he publicly confronted [then ... is the communal city. This means leaving the scope of El Maizal and reaching other areas so as to win over the people ... in it, not under our guidelines, but in union with El Maizal? Here everyone likes to talk about elections, ...