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International Press Release
Loss of Hugo Chavez
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CADTM AYNA
6 March 2013
As coordination unit for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt - Abya Yala Our America CADTM AYNA - social organisation struggling against the illegitimate debt that Northern countries have imposed on the peoples of the South - we express our profound sorrow at the death of Commander President HUGO RAFAEL CHAVEZ FRIAS. We grieve over the loss of a key revolutionary in the struggle to emancipate the peoples. On behalf of the regional (...)
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Venezuela: After the Chavez victory
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Franck Gaudichaud
22 December 2012
The state of health of Venezuelan president Higo Chávez is such that it is possible new elections will have to take place following his victory in October 2012. International Viewpoint correspondent Franck Gaudichaud was in Venezuela in October and made this assessment of the outcome of that election. On Sunday, October 7, Hugo Chávez celebrated his third presidential election victory, with 55.1% of the vote against 44.3% for his main opponent, the neo-liberal candidate Henrique Capriles (...)
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Series: Bolivarian Venezuela at the crossroads
Suggested paths to 21st century socialism in Venezuela (Part 4)
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Éric Toussaint
1 July 2010
Suggested paths to 21st century socialism in Venezuela (Part 4) Reduce dependency on hydrocarbons and on the United States One of the challenges that several previous governements have had to face, just as Chávez’ government must, is to diversify the productive apparatus in order to shake off the country’s extreme dependency on hydrocarbons (this is also true for the majority of the big oil-exporting countries). It was precisely to this end that, in the 1960s, a company such as SIDOR, the (...)
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Series: Bolivarian Venezuela at the crossroads
The Venezuelan economy: in transition towards socialism? (Part 3)
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Éric Toussaint
24 June 2010
The Venezuelan economy: in transition towards socialism ? (Part 3) The capitalist sector is growing faster than the public sector and is still predominant in Venezuela’s economy despite the nationalizations. The share of the private sector (greatly dominated by the capitalist secto) in Venezuela’s gross domestic product has grown from 64.7% in 1998 (before Hugo Chávez was elected president) to 70.9% in the third quarter of 2008. Although the government has nationalized a significant (...)
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Series: Bolivarian Venezuela at the crossroads
Debate and contradiction in the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) (Part 2)
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Éric Toussaint
18 June 2010
Debate and contradiction in the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) (Part 2) |1| During the 2007 constitutional referendum, one might have thought that the party created by Hugo Chávez in 2006 was stillborn since fewer people voted ’Yes’ than the number of people officially enrolled in the party. |2| But this impression was partially belied in the following months: grassroot meetings multiplied, which resulted in the nomination of candidates for the municipal elections and for (...)
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Series: Bolivarian Venezuela at the crossroads
Venezuela. Nationalization, workers’ control: achievements and limitations (PART 1)
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Éric Toussaint
14 April 2010
The economic, social and political situation in Venezuela has changed a lot since the failure of the constitutional reform in December 2007, which acted as a warning to the Chávez government. This failure had the effect however of reviving the debate on the need to have a socialist perspective. The debate revolves around several key questions: further nationalization, workers’ control, the place of the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela), people’s participation, etc. On Sunday 15 (...)
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Chavez’s historic call for a Fifth Socialist International
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Federico Fuentes
2 December 2009
Addressing delegates at the International Encounter of Left Parties held in Caracas, November 19-21, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez stated “the time has come for us to convoke the Fifth International.” Face with the capitalist crisis and the threat of war that is putting at risk the future of humanity, “the people are clamoring for” greater unity of left and revolutionary parties willing to fight for socialism, he said. Like his call in 2005 to build “21st Century Socialism” and his call in (...)
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Chavez Throws Down the Guantlet to EU’s Racist Immigration Policy – Threatens to Cut Off Oil and Return Investments
20 June 2008
Two hours ago President Hugo Chavez issued an unprecedented challenge to the European Union’s new anti-immigrant Return Directive. He promised that no Venezuelan oil would be sent to any European country that applies the directive, and that if any Colombian, Bolivian, Paraguayan or other Latin American were to be locked up or deported under this directive, Venezuela would study what investments that country has in Venezuela and apply its own “return directive”. We’ll return those investments, (...)
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Transformation by Embrace
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german-foreign-policy.com
6 July 2007
CARACAS/QUITO (Own report) - Through a revision from a confrontational strategy to one of "embrace," the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) is seeking a regime change in Venezuela. This was learned from reports on a conference that the CDU Party affiliated foundation, together with US American foundations convened in Washington DC at the end of last May. This demonstrates that the KAS is continuing to pursue its activities to overthrow the Chávez government, which has been democratically (...)
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Venezuela to quit IMF, World Bank
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Saul Hudson
4 May 2007
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela will withdraw from the Washington-based lending organizations, the IMF and World Bank, in a symbolic move that distances leftist President Hugo Chavez from much of the international economic community. Chavez, who plans to create an alternative lending bank run by South American nations and funded in part with his OPEC nation’s high oil revenue, said on Monday Venezuela no longer needed the institutions dominated by U.S. "imperialism." Leaving the (...)
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