By Katrina Kozarek - Barquisimeto, State of Lara, Jul 18th 2017
Last Sunday the Democratic Unity Roundtable held an informal consultation to demonstrate their rejection of the upcoming National Constituent Assembly (ANC) elections to be held on the 30th of July. This was organized parallel to the call by the National Electoral Council for an electoral drill for the same ANC elections.
By Katrina Kozarek - Barquisimeto, State of Lara, Jul 18th 2017
On Sunday, the 16th of July, the National Electoral Council of Venezuela held a rehearsal for the upcoming elections of the National Constituent Assembly to be held on July 30th. The electoral centers were flooded with people, the majority Chavista, due to a parallel call made by the opposition for an informal consultation, organized precisely to reject the upcoming elections.
Renowned journalist Abby Martin talks to The Real News about her recent time in Venezuela, where she became the target of a rightwing harassment campaign for covering the opposition's violent actions in the country's ongoing unrest.
By Katrina Kozarek – Venezuelanalysis.com , May 29th 2017
Venezuela's social movements are holding popular assemblies across the country to debate proposals for a new constitution in response to President Nicolas Maduro's move to convene a National Constituent Assembly earlier this month.
By Katrina Kozarek – Venezuelanalysis.com , May 29th 2017
Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets of Caracas to demand constitutional recognition of the country's commune movement as part of the National Constituent Assembly.
The Venezuelan opposition's march to demand the removal of the national government was the focus of international media coverage this May Day. Nonetheless, the demonstration was marked by poor turn-out from working class sectors and marred by acts of violence.
On International Workers' Day, hundreds of thousands of workers flooded into the Avenida Bolivar of Venezuela's capital to celebrate the advances of workers' rights under the Bolivarian Revolution, as well as in support of Venezuela's first worker-president, Nicolas Maduro, against mounting attacks from the domestic opposition.
While mass media continually repeats comments about "government repression" of supposedly "peaceful protesters" in Venezuela, there is a quite different reality to be seen from on the ground. Watch this video to see just a few examples of the "peaceful protests" in Venezuela.
Alborada's Pablo Navarrete speaks to Dr. Francisco Dominguez from Middlesex University and the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, and to Rachael Boothroyd Rojas from Venezuelanalysis on the unfolding violence in Venezuela.
By Rachael Boothroyd Rojas - Venezuelanalysis, Apr 26th 2017
On April 19th, Chavista supporters took to the streets of Caracas to defend the government against opposition-led violence and to reject foreign intervention and interference. From the ranks of the city's poor, the mainstream media has totally ignored their march. You can hear what they have to say here.
