Opinion & Analysis

Venezuela's election is not until September, but the international campaign to delegitimise the government has already begun

For two years, the cooperative Communicational Guerrilla has been painting murals on Caracas city walls using stencils and templates made from metal or other hard but economic materials. They cut the image, and sometimes text, into the material, then paint using spray cans.

TNI fellow, Daniel Chavez has been part of a team of international advisers working with Venezuelan researchers and CANTV to review the the state telecommunications company's history and put forward proposals for converting it into an effective socialist public company.

The Empire will stop at nothing to find mechanisms and techniques to achieve its final objective, and we cannot disregard the possibility of a military conflict in the near future. If the US places Venezuela on the “terrorist list” this year, we could be on the verge of a regional war.

Hillary Clinton’s Latin America tour is turning out to be about as successful as George W. Bush’s visit in 2005, when he ended up leaving Argentina a day ahead of schedule just to get the hell out of town.

Sheehan, mother of a child killed in Iraq, says she went to Venezuela for two reasons; because she was tired of the misinformation about Venezuela, and to be inspired and energized.

In an impressive and well coordinated smear campaign, the Spanish corporate media has launched a preemptive strike against President Hugo Chávez. The print media included Público, El País, ABC, El Mundo, La Razón, Cadena Ser, COPE, Libertad Digital as well as the TV Channels.

Venezuelanalysis's Kiraz Janicke and GreenLeft Weekly's Federico Fuentes discuss the international significance of Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution, as well as its internal dynamics.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez insists that the Venezuelan territorial reality must be transformed and therefore it is necessary to configure a new geometry of power that becomes a popular, communal and socialist restructuring of the geopolitics of the nation.

“When Chávez speaks, we listen. But we don’t listen to those around him.” This comment by a community activist interviewed by Iain Bruce, and integrated into his wonderful exploration of the Bolivarian Revolution from below, points to an essential characteristic—the unique link at present (“por ahora”) between Hugo Chávez and the exploited and excluded of Venezuela.