Venezuela

Venezuela: democratic solutions to the crisis

With speakers: 


  • Edgardo Lander: TNI fellow, retired professor at the Central University in Caracas and spokesperson of the independent Citizens Platform in Venezuela

  • Daniel Chavez: TNI fellow, researcher and author of the book The New Latin American Left

  • Rachel Rumai Diaz: feminist/performer

  • Moderated by Laura Flanders (The Laura Flanders Show)

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English
Date: 
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Type: 
Event
Time: 
20:00 - 22:00 (doors open 19:30)
Location: 
Desmet Studio's Plantage Middenlaan 4a, 1018DD Amsterdam
Organizer(s): 
Transnational Institute (TNI)
Speakers: 
TNI fellow
TNI fellow
Feminist/performer
Teaser: 

Venezuela is passing through a period of acute political, economic and social chaos. Once one of the driving powers behind the new Latin American left, the economy has collapsed and there is a shortage of food and medicine.

What structural or historical factors have caused the current situation? Is there a peaceful and democratic way out of the crisis?

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Project Protest x Venezuela: What’s the real story?

Tickets:
Low income: €3
Standard: €5
Solidarity: €7,50

Speakers:

  • Antonio Carmona Baez
    The president of the University of Sint Maarten and a former lecturer of political science courses at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Amsterdam. Baez will discuss the constitutional politics and arrangements In Venezuela, addressing some of the myths that are propagated about the Maduro presidency in the West.

  • Daniel Chavez
    Project officer at the Transnational Institute, an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet. He has authored and edited numerous books on politics in Latin America, and he will speak about the historical and structural roots of the current crisis that precede both Maduro and Guaido, looking at the broader political economy of Venezuela.

  • Sadet Karabulut
    A member of the Dutch Parliament for the Socialist Party since 2006. She is the official spokesperson on foreign affairs and defense and has recently introduced two bills in parliament against a military intervention in Venezuela and for non-politicized humanitarian aid for the Venezuelan people. Karabulut will be speaking about the geopolitical context of the conflict.

  • Sandew Hira
    The coordinator of the Decolonial International Network (DIN) and director of the international Institute for Scientific Research (IISR). Hira has authored numerous books on (de)colonization and is currently reporting from Venezuela on invitation of the International People’s Assembly.

This program was organized by Studio/K in cooperation with Transnational Institute, Critical Collective and Decolonial International Network. The program is part of Project Protest, an Amsterdam-based festival with programming on activist themes throughout March in the different venues of Foundation Kriterion.

English
Date: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Type: 
Event
Time: 
20:00 - 22:00
Location: 
STUDIO/K Timorplein 62, Amsterdam
Organizer(s): 
Critical Collective
Decolonial International Network
Transnational Institute (TNI)
Vereniging Studio/K
Teaser: 

The Venezuelan economy has halved since 2013. Amidst a deep economic crisis, there have been clashes between government and opposition forces and the recent power-struggle has escalated internationally, with multiple Western states introducing extensive economic sanctions. As the propaganda war reaches its peak, we have invited experts to answer some of the most pressing questions.

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New Politics
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Venezuela, Project Protest x Venezuela: What’s the real story?

Food politics in a time of crisis: corporate power vs. popular power in the shifting relations of state, society and capital in Venezuela’s food system

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food politics, Venezuela, state-society-capital relations, everyday life, authoritarian populism, social differentiation, race, rural-urban divide, revolution-counterrevolution, grassroots resistance

Commentary on La Diaria's interview with Edgardo Lander

English
Programmes: 
New Politics
Article type: 
Article
Body: 

I recently read the interview with prominent Venezuelan thinker Edgardo Lander published by La Diaria on Thursday, March 23rd, 2017. In general, I disagree with Lander's line of analysis for reasons of both content and form. I believe that our colleague shows a tendency towards political reductionism and his analysis is coated in Eurocentrism, which leads him to overlook the complexity of the... Read more

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Spanish
Programmes: 
Nueva Política
Article type: 
Article
Body: 

Un manifestante se enfrenta a la Guardia Nacional de Venezuela durante una protesta en mayo de 2017. / Photo credit Efecto Eco @Wiki Media Commons... Read more

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Protester facing the Venezuelan National Guard during a protest in May 2017
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La “solidaridad incondicional” de la izquierda latinoamericana con el chavismo

Spanish
Programmes: 
Nueva Política
Subtitle: 
Natalia Uval (La Diaria, Montevideo) conversa con Edgardo Lander
Article type: 
Article
Body: 

>> Esta entrevista se publicó originalmente en La Diaria. Edgardo Lander no es sólo un académico, profesor titular de la Universidad Central de Venezuela e investigador asociado del Transnational Institute. Es una persona vinculada desde hace años a los movimientos sociales y a la izquierda en su país. Desde ese lugar, afirma que el apoyo incondicional de las izquierdas de la región al c... Read more

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The "unconditional solidarity" of the left with Chavismo

English
Programmes: 
New Politics
Subtitle: 
Natalia Uval (La Diaria, Montevideo) talks with Edgardo Lander
Article type: 
Article
Body: 

Edgardo Lander is not only an academic, a Professor at the Central University of Venezuela and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute, he is also an activist who has been linked to social movements and the left for many years. From this point of view, he affirms that the Latin American left’s unconditional support of Chavismo has reinforced the negative tendencies of the Venezuelan experien... Read more

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