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Venezuelanalysis.com is one of the few English alternative news sites dedicated specifically to Venezuela and with contextualised, in-depth and on-the-ground news updated daily. We also provide analysis on social and political developments in Venezuela's "Bolivarian Revolution."
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Dear Readers,
In 1998 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez burst on to the political scene, spearheading an anti-neoliberal rebellion, known as the “Bolivarian Revolution” and promoting a dynamic movement of integration and independence from U.S. domination across Latin America.
Since then Venezuela’s government has used its control over the country’s vast oil resources to massively increase social spending. As a result, poverty, inequality and unemployment have decreased significantly, and free health and education programs have considerably improved the life of the country’s poor majority.
While the international mainstream media has focused overwhelmingly on its controversial leader, the Bolivarian movement is made up of millions, including workers, campesinos, students, women, and the urban poor. These people’s struggle to chart an independent path has brought them into conflict with powerful economic interests both at home and internationally.
Increasing U.S. hostility towards the Bolivarian revolution and the process of progressive change across Latin America is reflected in the massive military build up in the region including seven new U.S. military bases in Colombia, the June 2009 military coup in Honduras, and the destabilisation of other progressive governments in Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay.
Tensions between the Venezuelan government and that of staunch U.S. ally, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, have also increased and the corporate media has stepped up its campaign against Venezuela. In this context we believe it is vital to continue providing independent, accurate reporting on developments in Venezuela.
Venezuelanalysis.com is one of the few English-language alternative news sites dedicated specifically to Venezuela and has been providing on-the-ground reports about the Bolivarian process since we were founded seven years ago.
We have covered Venezuela's many electoral contests, social movements, domestic and foreign policy initiatives, economic indicators, experiments in grassroots democracy, labour and environmental issues, opposition and media efforts to discredit and destabilize the Bolivarian Process, as well as breaking news, among many other topics.
Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution is making a difference; it is showing that there is an alternative to neoliberalism, that another world is possible.
We would like to continue and expand on this very valuable reportage. However, Venezuelanalysis.com is a small independent operation and to do this we need the support of people like you to help keep us online.
As a special short-term offer, and thanks to some of our supporters, we are offering a book or DVD if you make a one-off donation of $100 or more, or became a monthly sustainer of $25 or more (see below).
If you can help please consider contributing a one-off donation or a monthly sustainer contribution of US$100, $50, $20, $10, or $5 per month. Since these donations go through Paypal, we do not keep or manage your credit card information at all. The transaction is completely secure.
For those of you who are based in the U.S., we recently applied for tax-exempt status. According to U.S. law, this means that you may already make a tax-exempt donation to Venezuela Analyisis, Inc. now, since the tax-exemption is retro-active once it is approved.
Wishing you all the best,
In solidarity,
The venezuelanalysis.com team
Gregory Wilpert, James Suggett, Kiraz Janicke, Tamara Pearson, Jan Kühn, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes, Eva Golinger
Why support venezuelanalysis.com?
“Never has a country, its people, its politics, its leader, its myths and truths been so misreported and lied about as Venezuela in the past decade. Not only has Venezuelanalysis done much to correct this with its scrupulous attention to facts, both obvious and concealed, it has opened up a unique space for genuine critique of one of the world's most imaginative popular movements. I can't think of another website on the web more deserving of support.”
“Venezuelanalysis is an invaluable source of information, a tribune of independent analysis and honest reporting.”
“Among other things, Venezuelanalysis is a superb tool for teaching! Students need the access it provides to English-language reports that are fresh, independent and give insight into what ordinary Venezuelans, not just government and opposition leaders are saying and doing.”
“Venezuelanalysis is a refreshing corrective to the one-sided reporting in the establishment media on Venezuela. While sympathetic to the interesting and novel developments taking place in Venezuela, Venezuelanalysis is hardly a mouthpiece for the Chávez government.
The kind of objective and critical analysis found on its pages is especially important given the current ideological vacuum at the world level. There is a lack of credible proposals for transformation at a time when the old system is becoming increasingly discredited. Only the right in the United States seems to be clear about what it wants. It is thus of paramount importance that the experimental path that Venezuela is currently going down be objectively reported upon and analyzed.
Venezuelanalysis publishes nuanced articles on internal developments in Venezuela, but not so with regard to international relations. With the activation of the U.S. Fourth Fleet last year (without consulting any Latin American nation), the U.S. decision the following year to utilize seven bases in Colombia, as well as the escalation of the war in Afghanistan (including the mass use of drones) at a time when withdrawal from Iraq is highly incomplete, there is little doubt as to who represents the greatest threat to world peace. Venezuelanalysis provides important information on this front as well, as it applies to Latin America. In short, Venezuelanalysis offers useful detail and analysis on pivotal issues that is unavailable from other media sources.”
“Venezuela Analysis is my primary source on all things Venezuela. When people ask where to look for information and analysis about Venezuela, I point to it first, second, and third. Why? Because the writers and editors are incredibly well informed and eloquent, have their eye, ears, and minds situated amidst the events, and because the reporting and analysis is biased in the best way possible - it unabashedly takes the side of the country's poor, whether this means being in support of or critical of government policies.”
“Venezuelanalysis is a vital source of sensible information about Venezuela and the new developments in Latin America, at a time of intense propaganda and corporate media lies.”
“Around the world the private media dominates the airwaves, the press, the internet, depriving people of their own voice and popular expression. Internationally and internally there is a big campaign of private media lies against our revolutionary Bolivarian process, against our president and against the Venezuelan people. We are struggling against imperialist domination, for sovereignty, for control over our own resources, for control over our own destinies and to break the logic of exploitation of the capitalist system. I want to congratulate Venezuelanalysis.com for reflecting the reality of our struggle.”
Premiums
As a special short-term offer, and thanks to some of our supporters, we are offering one of the following books or DVD if you make a one-off donation of $100 or more, or become a monthly sustainer of $25 or more:
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Venezuela & the New Latin America (Ocean Books) - In this extraordinary encounter, Chávez is interviewed by Aleida Guevara, the daughter of the legendary revolutionary Che Guevara. |
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Beyond Elections, by Michael Fox & Sílvia Leindecker - This new feature length documentary film is a journey across the Americas - from Venezuela's Communal Councils, to Brazil's Participatory Budgeting, from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives. It attempts to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? |
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Changing Venezuela by Taking Power, by Gregory Wilpert – In this rich and resourceful study, Greg Wilpert exposes the self-serving logic behind much middle-class opposition to Venezuela’s elected leader, and explains the real reason for their alarm. In the book, Wilpert argues that the Chávez government has instituted one of the world’s most progressive constitutions, but warns that they have yet to overcome the dangerous spectres of the country’s past. |
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Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela, by Pablo Navarrete – Filmed in Caracas in November 2008, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Chavez's controversial presidency, this feature-length documentary takes a journey into the heart of Venezuela's revolution to listen to the voices of the people driving the process forward. |
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