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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 ... -
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 Friday his staunch support of the agricultural commune El Maizal after their communal property title was revoked by a ...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 ... -
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, ... -
Against Judicial Attacks, International Support for Venezuela’s Communes
December 22, 2014 ... granted by President Hugo Chávez himself to the El Maizal Commune, the country’s most productive and ambitious ... (1,200 acres) of corn. Both the Ana Soto Commune and El Maizal draw their legitimacy from the Bolivarian Constitution ... por el mismo Presidente Hugo Chávez a la Comuna El Maizal, el experimento más productivo y ambicioso de ... -
Rural Deaths in Venezuela Politically Motivated, Linked to Paramilitaries, Rights Group Says
October 3, 2013 ... on 16 September. This small rural area is part of the El Maizal commune, which straddles the border of the two states. ... -
Moving Tributes Held for 'Ticoporo Massacre' Victims
August 5, 2019 ... Prado , constituent assembly deputy and leader of El Maizal commune in neighboring Lara State, expressed “This ... -
Free Men and Liberated Land: Defending Chávez’s Legacy in the Venezuelan Countryside
July 24, 2019 ... to engage people again and change production relations. El Maizal Commune was also present at the assembly. Addressing ... the output from the land,” he exclaimed, reaffirming El Maizal’s commitment towards building ties with other ... -
Venezuela to Expand Small-Scale Urban Agriculture
March 19, 2018 ... of commune and community organisations , such as in El Maizal in Lara State and the Communities to the Fore ... -
Debate On the Seed Law. Shipment of Transgenic Seeds Arrives in Venezuela
May 8, 2014 ... Consejo Campesino Comandante Argimiro Gabaldon Comuna El Maizal Comuna Comandante Adrian Moncada Comuna Juan Sabas ... -
Land Rights Activist Arrested in Venezuela, Protestors Claim Oligarchical Influence in Judicial System
December 9, 2014 ... by the nation’s most productive agricultural commune, El Maizal, is a sign of increased bourgeois influence within the ...