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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 ... -
The New Society Will Emerge in the Commune: A Conversation with Angel Prado
January 24, 2020 El Maizal is a flagship rural commune between the ... corn, and other foodstuffs. Communal production in El Maizal is based on socialized control of the means of ... In this exclusive interview with Angel Prado, El Maizal’s key spokesperson, we talk about the role of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
In the Venezuelan Llanos Music Delivers a Message: ‘No Mining Near Our Productive Lands’
June 26, 2019 ... lush hills behind the city. Sarare is also known for El Maizal , an emblematic rural commune where corn is produced ... of Cerro La Vieja,” many of whom are communards from El Maizal. They talked about Chavez’s legacy, including the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... and repression of the people's voice,” tweeted El Maizal commune, who have condemned the presence of the ... @ANC_ve pic.twitter.com/GqJTxLk9ia — Comuna El Maizal (@ComunaElMaizal) December 12, 2017 Así manifiesta el ... -
Realizing the Dream of Communal Cities: A Conversation with Jennifer Lemus and José Luis Sifontes
January 21, 2021 El Maizal is a rural commune between the centrally-located ... a communard who left the comforts of Caracas to live in El Maizal Commune. (Note: In the Bolivarian process, the term ... Chávez called “supreme happiness.” What does the El Maizal Commune aim to achieve in constructing the Hugo ... -
Revolutionary Organization in Venezuela
September 27, 2020 ... examples of revolutionary organization in Venezuela: El Maizal Commune, Pueblo a Pueblo, the Pobladoras Movement, ... -
Venezuelan Communards Meet to Organize National Movement
January 29, 2020 ... In the opening session, Ángel Prado, spokesman of El Maizal Commune, proclaimed the Communard Union’s firmly ... with songs by the “Maizalitos” (boys and girls from El Maizal Commune) and a Tamunangue (local music style from ... by local musicians. Willy Romero, spokeswoman from El Maizal Commune, told Venezuelanalysis that the organizers ... -
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 ...