Tag: Bolivarian Revolution

Venezuela: Deconstructing the Largest Social Engineering Experiment on the Planet

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15 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°

José Negrón Valera

A famous aphorism, associated with Abraham Lincoln, says the following: “You can fool everyone for a while. You can fool some all the time. But you can’t fool everyone all the time”. But is this really so?

Photographs of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó with members of the macabre paramilitary band Los Rastrojos have been shown. Terrorist Lorent Saleh appears in a video declaring that he is willing to fill the streets of Caracas with blood. Telephone recordings are presented where Lorenzo Mendoza, owner of Venezuela’s largest business conglomerate, talks openly with Ricardo Hausmann, an economist and financial operator, about his plan to indebt the country through a multi-billion dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund.

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Chavez, a Mirror of the People: A Conversation with Edgar Perez By Cira Pascual Marquina

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14 June 2019 — Internationalist 360°

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Edgar Perez, better known as “Gordo Edgar,” participated in the most important events in recent Venezuelan history, from the Caracazo to the 4F insurrection to the anti‐coup mobilization that brought Chavez back to office in April 2002. A well-known personality in the popular movement, Edgar grew up in the 23 de Enero barrio in Caracas, but most of his activism took place in La Vega, a very poor barrio that, like 23 de Enero, takes pride in its history of rebellion and grassroots organization. Growing up in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Edgar calls La Vega, where we interviewed him, “a school for revolutionaries.” In this conversation, “Gordo Edgar” reflects on the vicissitudes of the popular movement while analyzing the role of Hugo Chavez in the Venezuelan revolution.

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Chavez the Radical XXIV: “The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It, not to the Large Landowners”

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134 June 2019 — Venezuela Analysis –

When the Bolivarian Revolution passed legislation in 2001 to break up the feudal land tenure system and to distribute large tracts of unused land to collectives of peasant farmers, the large estate owners responded by implementing the systematic assassination of peasant leaders.

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Book Launch, London: Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution By Richard Gott

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BOOK LAUNCH: Thursday July 14, 18.30- 21.00. At the Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU

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Places available – please email info@venezuelasolidarity.co.uk to reserve your place today! With rum cocktails, complimentary refreshments, music, stalls and much more!

Plus special guests including:

  • Richard Gott
  • Ambassador Samuel Moncada
  • And more to be announced

Praise for Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

  • “A colourful and readable account of Chávez’s background and beliefs.”
    – Financial Times
  • “Gott is always an interesting, well-informed, and engaging writer.”
    – Foreign Affairs
  • “Chávez, as Richard Gott’s readable profile makes clear, is no ordinary caudillo.”
  • – Times Higher Education Supplement
    – “Gott is, if nothing else, a true believer of the revolutionary process in Latin America and brings his own sense of moral indignation every time he mentions the United States. It is worth reading a text that is so ideological yet effectively explains how many people in the upper ranks of the Chávez government perceive the world around them.”
    – Center for Strategic and International Studies

This event is free, but please pre-register by emailing info@venezuelasolidarity.co.uk
Organised by the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in association with Verso Books and the Marx Memorial Library.

Book Launch, London: Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution By Richard Gott

Leave a comment
BOOK LAUNCH: Thursday July 14, 18.30- 21.00. At the Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU

gott-ven.jpg

Places available – please email info@venezuelasolidarity.co.uk to reserve your place today! With rum cocktails, complimentary refreshments, music, stalls and much more!

Plus special guests including:

  • Richard Gott
  • Ambassador Samuel Moncada
  • And more to be announced

Praise for Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

  • “A colourful and readable account of Chávez’s background and beliefs.”
    – Financial Times
  • “Gott is always an interesting, well-informed, and engaging writer.”
    – Foreign Affairs
  • “Chávez, as Richard Gott’s readable profile makes clear, is no ordinary caudillo.”
  • – Times Higher Education Supplement
    – “Gott is, if nothing else, a true believer of the revolutionary process in Latin America and brings his own sense of moral indignation every time he mentions the United States. It is worth reading a text that is so ideological yet effectively explains how many people in the upper ranks of the Chávez government perceive the world around them.”
    – Center for Strategic and International Studies

This event is free, but please pre-register by emailing info@venezuelasolidarity.co.uk
Organised by the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign in association with Verso Books and the Marx Memorial Library.

For Venezuela, There is No Going Back – A Discussion with Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke

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24 March, 2010 — The B u l l e t Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 334

As Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution enters a new decade of struggle and defiantly advances toward its goal of ‘21st Century Socialism,’ serious challenges to the future of the process emerging from both inside and outside the country still abound. As a result, key questions surrounding Venezuela’s mounting tensions with the West, the role played by its fiery and outspoken leader Hugo Chavez, and the future of the process itself remain as relevant today as ever before. Australian-based journalists and long-time Venezuela solidarity activists Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke have been carefully following Venezuela’s ongoing political transformation for several years now, countering mainstream media spin and providing invaluable on-the-ground coverage and analysis about the process as it unfolds.

Ali Mustafa had the fortune to sit down and speak with them in Toronto before they were set to return to Caracas, following a 10-day Canadian solidarity tour in early March, and The Bullet reproduces the interview here.

Ali Mustafa: Over a decade now has passed since the beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Can you provide an overview of the type of gains that have been made since President Hugo Chavez has come to power and what Venezuela looks like today?

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Venezuela: Socialist Party Prepares for “Transition to Socialism” By Federico Fuentes

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11 August 11, 2009 — T h e B u l l e t A Socialist Project e-bulletin No. 247

On August 1, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) members across the country participated in 1556 local assemblies to discuss the reorganisation of the party’s base into local patrols.

This push to strengthen revolutionary organising comes at a time when attacks on Venezuela’s revolutionary process revolution “from outside and within have intensified”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, also president of the PSUV, said on August 4.

“Each time that the revolution advances and accelerates its march, the attacks intensify.

“I will continue to put my foot down on the accelerator of the Bolivarian revolution. That is my role, that is my task and there is no time to lose.

“Today, in Venezuela, we are creating a true socialist democracy.”

After his re-election in the December 2006 presidential elections, Chavez issued a call to build a “new party… from the base” and at the service “of the people and the revolution, at the service of socialism.”

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COHA: A Decade in Power: An Assessment of Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution

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  • Chávez celebrates a decade of power
  • Venezuela’s progress over the last 10 years
  • Chávez’s social and economic reforms
  • Trouble in Chávez Presidency
  • Future U.S.-Venezuelan relations

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, a former paratrooper turned socialist revolutionary and regional leader, declared a national holiday for February 2, the tenth anniversary of his being in power. On the day of the newly mandated celebration, Chávez reminded Venezuelans of the prosperity the country has witnessed over the last decade. He rallied his supporters with a speech proclaiming that his administration had encapsulated ‘three words: revolution, independence and socialism.’ He proclaimed to the thousands of sympathizers lining Caracas’ streets that the spirit of Venezuela’s forefather, Simon Bolivar, had been revived in him ten years ago, and assisted in the effort to liberate the Venezuelan people. Chávez, the founder of the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (United Socialist Party of Venezuela), also used the occasion to issue a new document, ‘The Achievement in 10 years of Revolution.’ It outlines the government’s accomplishments such as economic reform, social welfare, and the prospect of major land reform. Chávez triumphantly told his followers that, ‘We have done in 10 years what couldn’t be done in one century.’

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