Many supporters remain committed to Chavez’ constitutional reform project
By: Vincent Bevins
“I suppose if I hated Chavez enough, I could just pay someone in a barrio the equivalent of $50 to buy all of a certain product, and news would spread like wildfire, causing an actual shortage just like that. Maybe right before the referendum.”
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Reforms can be achieved via normal legislation in the National Assembly
By: Vincent Bevins
Many supporters of President Chavez’ narrowly defeated constitutional reforms remain quite committed to the project’s version of socialism. But many of the reforms can be achieved through the national assembly in normal legislative action.
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New mood as opposition leaders emphasize their need to stick together…
By: Jeremy Morgan
For Barboza, what mattered wasn’t just who’d won, but the circumstances in which they had. “This is a government with control of all the powers, with use and abuse of the resources of the state,” he declared, “and yet it’s defeated on a proposal of g
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President Chavez’ supporters seem to be finding defeat difficult to digest…
By: Jeremy Morgan
In the wake of the lost referendum on the proposed constitutional reforms, President Hugo Chavez’ supporters seem to be finding defeat difficult to digest. Argument is afoot about two closely related issues: What went wrong, and what to do next?
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Chavez “is key” to broker exchange of captives held by Colombia’s FARC
By: EFE News Service
Sen. Piedad Cordoba, who first asked Chavez to play the role of mediator between Bogota and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has been harshly critical of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s decision to terminate the Venezuelan’s mission ove
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Venezuela responds to Guyana’s diplomatic note on Rio Cuyuni incident
By: Miranda La Rose
Venezuela’s Ministry of External Relations has responded to Guyana’s diplomatic note in relation to the border incursion and the destruction of two dredges in the Cuyuni River on November 15 and the government here is studying it.
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Wishes alone do not come true; stark reality constrains unbridled illusions
By: For this, we must not radicalize the discourse; we
For this, we must not radicalize the discourse; we must deepen and renew socialist democratic and revolutionary practice, from the bottom up, towards the construction of an autonomous, democratic and revolutionary popular power.
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Chavez calls for a ‘Battle of Ideas’ to combat United States interference
By: Kiraz Janicke
Speaking at the Cultural Encounter for the Integration of the Peoples of Our America, in Buenos Aires, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for increased Latin American integration and a “battle of ideas” in order to combat United States interfere
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Venezuelan opposition: If you don’t like it, scream, and yell, and attack?
By: Oscar Heck
So, I began to write against the Venezuelan opposition, exposing them for who and what they are, investigating and reporting to the world the details through VHeadline.com … including the fact that the US government was financing them…
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