Venezuela

Venezuela
    January 2011

    The Venezuelan process is caught between a fundamental contradiction: popular demands for democratic participation against tendencies towards hierarchical decison-making and concentration of power.

    August 2010

    The White House asked him for one last “proof of love” to support US Latin America policy. What will be next? Worries about his personal future?

    July 2010

    The US government demanded that Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding extradite a drug dealer. When Venezuela made similar demands on Washington, for arguably the Hemisphere’s most notorious terrorist, the Justice Department brushed off the request.

    March 2010

    Venezuela's revolution has often been tied to the slogan “Socialism in the 21st Century.” What might that might mean concretely in changes under way in the renationalised state telecommunications company, CANTV?

    September 2009
    Pablo Navarrete

    A thoughtful insight into the achievements and challenges of the Venezuelan revolution, ten years after Hugo Chavez took office.

    December 2008

    Watching Hugo Chavez orate on Venezuelan television rings old memory bells. “Socialism.

    December 2008
    “The construction of socialism in Venezuela is ratified, and now we will take charge of deepening it.”

    -- President Hugo Chavez, after learning the results of the November 23 elections.

    Chavez’s PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) won 17 of 23...

    October 2008 César Rodríguez-Garavito, Patrick Barret and Daniel Chavez
    The resurgence of the left in Latin America has taken social and political analysts by surprise, and this book is the first attempt at a comprehensive analysis of the origins, characteristics, dilemmas and possible future trajectories of the various manifestations of the new Latin American...
    December 2007 Tariq Ali
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