#News | Venezuelan industrial workers and social movements demanded the immediate liberation of two trade union leaders detained during recent protests at state-owned steelmaking company Siderúrgicas del Orinoco (Sidor) in Ciudad Guayana, Bolívar state.
Daniel Romero and Leonardo Azócar were arrested on June 11 following a five-day sit-down strike alongside hundreds of metalworkers to urge the company’s board to adjust salaries to rising living costs as well as reinstate health insurance and collective bargaining rights. A third worker, Juan Cabrera, was detained as well but released hours later.
On Wednesday, Sidor worker Carlos Villarroel alongside social activists and members of leftist political organizations staged a protest in front of the Attorney General’s Office in Caracas, where they delivered a letter demanding the release of the union leaders. The demonstrators also requested protection for all workers protesting for their constitutional rights and to end the military occupation of the company.
“I came all the way from Guayana to Caracas to tell the country what is happening. Workers from our industrial companies are rallying for better pay to be able to feed their families, a problem that reflects our nation’s economic and labor collapse,” said Villarroel.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15787
Daniel Romero and Leonardo Azócar were arrested on June 11 following a five-day sit-down strike alongside hundreds of metalworkers to urge the company’s board to adjust salaries to rising living costs as well as reinstate health insurance and collective bargaining rights. A third worker, Juan Cabrera, was detained as well but released hours later.
On Wednesday, Sidor worker Carlos Villarroel alongside social activists and members of leftist political organizations staged a protest in front of the Attorney General’s Office in Caracas, where they delivered a letter demanding the release of the union leaders. The demonstrators also requested protection for all workers protesting for their constitutional rights and to end the military occupation of the company.
“I came all the way from Guayana to Caracas to tell the country what is happening. Workers from our industrial companies are rallying for better pay to be able to feed their families, a problem that reflects our nation’s economic and labor collapse,” said Villarroel.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15787
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Venezuela: Metalworkers Demand Labor Rights, No More Protest
Workers from Venezuela's industries are rallying for better pay and calling for the release of detained union leaders.
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#Interview | Venezuela is the target of a brutal economic blockade. VA’s founder helps us understand why.
"The first reason has to do with what I already mentioned, which is that Venezuela, under President Chávez, made an explicit effort to move away from neoliberal economic policy. More than that, Chávez became increasingly more radical during his presidency and wanted to establish 21st-century socialism in Venezuela. So the imposition of US sanctions represents an effort to undermine the Bolivarian-socialist project in Venezuela at a time when the US believed that doing so would cause the government, then led by Nicolás Maduro, to topple relatively easily and quickly.
The second reason has to do with Chávez’s effort to directly confront US hegemony on the world stage by building what he called a multi-polar world."
https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/15786
"The first reason has to do with what I already mentioned, which is that Venezuela, under President Chávez, made an explicit effort to move away from neoliberal economic policy. More than that, Chávez became increasingly more radical during his presidency and wanted to establish 21st-century socialism in Venezuela. So the imposition of US sanctions represents an effort to undermine the Bolivarian-socialist project in Venezuela at a time when the US believed that doing so would cause the government, then led by Nicolás Maduro, to topple relatively easily and quickly.
The second reason has to do with Chávez’s effort to directly confront US hegemony on the world stage by building what he called a multi-polar world."
https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/15786
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Why Sanctions? A Conversation with Gregory Wilpert
Venezuela is the target of a brutal economic blockade. VA’s founder helps us understand why.
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#News | The Venezuelan oil sector has continued to raise its output levels amidst tight US sanctions.
The latest monthly report from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) placed Venezuela’s May output at 735,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to secondary sources. The figure rose by 9,000 bpd compared to the previous month.
The numbers supplied directly by state oil company PDVSA followed a similar pattern, going from 810,000 bpd in April to 819,000 bpd in May.
Despite the production uptick, exports fell by 14 percent in May as a result of a fall in inventories of light crude required to blend the extra heavy crude from the Orinoco Oil Belt into exportable grades.
The present output is the highest registered since early 2020. However, it remains significantly below the 1.9 million bpd pumped in mid-2017 before the first US sanctions levied against the oil industry.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15788
The latest monthly report from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) placed Venezuela’s May output at 735,000 barrels per day (bpd), according to secondary sources. The figure rose by 9,000 bpd compared to the previous month.
The numbers supplied directly by state oil company PDVSA followed a similar pattern, going from 810,000 bpd in April to 819,000 bpd in May.
Despite the production uptick, exports fell by 14 percent in May as a result of a fall in inventories of light crude required to blend the extra heavy crude from the Orinoco Oil Belt into exportable grades.
The present output is the highest registered since early 2020. However, it remains significantly below the 1.9 million bpd pumped in mid-2017 before the first US sanctions levied against the oil industry.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15788
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Venezuelan Oil Production Continues Upward Trend as Gov’t Eyes
The Maduro government has been courting European partners, though companies remain wary of possible US sanctions.
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#News | Several board members of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) resigned from their posts Thursday leading the country’s opposition to announce that they will independently organize their primary voting contest.
CNE President Pedro Calzadilla announced during a press conference on Thursday that he and another lead member, Alexis Corredor, along with five substitute board members, had submitted their resignations, adding that they would remain in their positions until the National Assembly selected their replacements.
Calzadilla said the resignations were motivated by commitment to the country’s “economic prosperity and political and social stability” in the midst of negotiations between the government and the opposition ahead of the 2024 presidential vote.
A third primary board member, Roberto Picón, stated on Monday that he too would resign.
In response to these developments, the opposition’s “National Primary Commission” announced that it would independently organize the primary vote ahead of the 2024 election. That decision led to the resignation of Rafael Arráiz Lucca, one of the commission’s substitute members, who argued that without the support of the CNE an inclusive primary process would be “impossible”.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15789
CNE President Pedro Calzadilla announced during a press conference on Thursday that he and another lead member, Alexis Corredor, along with five substitute board members, had submitted their resignations, adding that they would remain in their positions until the National Assembly selected their replacements.
Calzadilla said the resignations were motivated by commitment to the country’s “economic prosperity and political and social stability” in the midst of negotiations between the government and the opposition ahead of the 2024 presidential vote.
A third primary board member, Roberto Picón, stated on Monday that he too would resign.
In response to these developments, the opposition’s “National Primary Commission” announced that it would independently organize the primary vote ahead of the 2024 election. That decision led to the resignation of Rafael Arráiz Lucca, one of the commission’s substitute members, who argued that without the support of the CNE an inclusive primary process would be “impossible”.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15789
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Venezuela’s Opposition to Self-Organize Primary Contest After
Venezuela’s opposition’s “National Primary Commission” faces a tall order organizing a vote without the CNE.
After seven straight years of recession, the Venezuelan economy experienced growth again. However, Washington's wide-reaching sanctions program is going nowhere and Caracas faces constant challenges to reactivate its economy. Is the recovery sustainable or will it be strangled by the US blockade?
Our latest infographic examines the facts and figures to take stock of Venezuela's economy.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/15790
Our latest infographic examines the facts and figures to take stock of Venezuela's economy.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/15790
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Luis Britto García is considered Venezuela’s most highly regarded living writer. He has written numerous plays, novels, historical works, essays, and film noscripts, and is a keen political commentator. In this exclusive VA interview, Britto García talks about the relationship between the “developed” Global North and the dependent Global South, and reflects on Venezuela’s plight due to the US imposed blockade.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/15791
https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/15791
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Venezuela, Imperialism and Dependency: A Conversation with Luis
One of the country’s key intellectuals reflects on how US Imperialism extracts value from Venezuela and other countries of the Global South.
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#News | Indigenous Yukpa communities have denounced repression from security forces and demanded freedom for three people detained amidst recent protests in Zulia state, western Venezuela.
On June 15, Zenaida Romero, her husband Alfonzo Ramos Romero, and Francisco Romero were arrested after the National Bolivarian Police (PNB) attacked a group of Yukpas on the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge across the Maracaibo Lake after blocking them from crossing on their way to Caracas.
Zenaida is the daughter of historical Yukpa chief Sabino Romero, a key figure in the fight for Yukpa lands in the Sierra de Perijá region. Romero was murdered on March 3, 2013, by landowning elites. Only the material perpetrator has been convicted.
“The three were arbitrarily detained while they were protesting for their right to travel to Caracas in order to sell their handicrafts,” activist and lawyer for the Yukpa people, Sergio Zambrano, told the local press during a rally on Tuesday in front of the Palace of Justice in Maracaibo, Zulia’s capital.
"In a commando-type operation, they [the police] put on masks, turned off the bridge’s lights, and proceeded to attack the Yukpas because they insisted on exercising their right to free circulation.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15792
On June 15, Zenaida Romero, her husband Alfonzo Ramos Romero, and Francisco Romero were arrested after the National Bolivarian Police (PNB) attacked a group of Yukpas on the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge across the Maracaibo Lake after blocking them from crossing on their way to Caracas.
Zenaida is the daughter of historical Yukpa chief Sabino Romero, a key figure in the fight for Yukpa lands in the Sierra de Perijá region. Romero was murdered on March 3, 2013, by landowning elites. Only the material perpetrator has been convicted.
“The three were arbitrarily detained while they were protesting for their right to travel to Caracas in order to sell their handicrafts,” activist and lawyer for the Yukpa people, Sergio Zambrano, told the local press during a rally on Tuesday in front of the Palace of Justice in Maracaibo, Zulia’s capital.
"In a commando-type operation, they [the police] put on masks, turned off the bridge’s lights, and proceeded to attack the Yukpas because they insisted on exercising their right to free circulation.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15792
Venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuela: Yukpa People Call for Justice for Detainees Amidst Protests
Indigenous communities from western Venezuela were injured during a crackdown while trying to reach Caracas to sell handicrafts.
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#Opinion | Venezuela’s Maduro government has slowly and steadily regained its diplomatic standing in recent years, overcoming US endeavors to turn the country into a pariah state as part of its regime-change efforts.
Nevertheless, Washington remains hell-bent on ousting the democratically elected Venezuelan authorities, and has kept its deadly sanctions program virtually intact. And Western media, which have cheered coup attempts at every step of the way (FAIR.org, 6/13/22, 5/2/22, 6/4/21, 4/15/20, 1/22/20), remain committed to endorsing US policies to the bitter end.
This commitment was on full display recently when President Nicolás Maduro was hosted by Brazilian President Lula da Silva, in a major blow against the campaign to isolate Venezuela. Lula added insult to injury by condemning what he called the “narrative” of authoritarianism and lack of democracy that had been built around Venezuela to justify sanctions and regime change.
The Western media establishment’s initial reaction was straight from the five stages of grief. The New York Times, with its unenviable Venezuela reporting record (FAIR.org, 3/26/19, 5/24/19), was in denial, not reporting on the meeting at all. The Financial Times (6/4/23) had a depressed tone, citing the fading hopes of a return to "free and fair elections” in the wake of the Brasilia meeting. The Washington Post (5/30/23) flared in anger, claiming that by hosting Maduro, Lula had betrayed his promise to “save democracy.”
The reporting around the latest developments saw corporate pundits showcasing a full array of journalistic con artistry to defend their “narrative,” including dubious sources, inaccurate conclusions and dishonest context.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/15793
Nevertheless, Washington remains hell-bent on ousting the democratically elected Venezuelan authorities, and has kept its deadly sanctions program virtually intact. And Western media, which have cheered coup attempts at every step of the way (FAIR.org, 6/13/22, 5/2/22, 6/4/21, 4/15/20, 1/22/20), remain committed to endorsing US policies to the bitter end.
This commitment was on full display recently when President Nicolás Maduro was hosted by Brazilian President Lula da Silva, in a major blow against the campaign to isolate Venezuela. Lula added insult to injury by condemning what he called the “narrative” of authoritarianism and lack of democracy that had been built around Venezuela to justify sanctions and regime change.
The Western media establishment’s initial reaction was straight from the five stages of grief. The New York Times, with its unenviable Venezuela reporting record (FAIR.org, 3/26/19, 5/24/19), was in denial, not reporting on the meeting at all. The Financial Times (6/4/23) had a depressed tone, citing the fading hopes of a return to "free and fair elections” in the wake of the Brasilia meeting. The Washington Post (5/30/23) flared in anger, claiming that by hosting Maduro, Lula had betrayed his promise to “save democracy.”
The reporting around the latest developments saw corporate pundits showcasing a full array of journalistic con artistry to defend their “narrative,” including dubious sources, inaccurate conclusions and dishonest context.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/15793
Venezuelanalysis.com
As Venezuela Mends Ties With Latin Neighbors, Western Media Turn Up
Venezuelanalysis editor Ricardo Vaz looks at the corporate media's attempts to defend its Venezuela narrative and US regime-change efforts.
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#News | The Venezuelan government expressed its disagreement with the decision by the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to accept Prosecutor Karim Khan’s petition to resume a formal investigation into alleged crimes against humanity committed during violent anti-government protests.
The decision comes days after Khan’s most recent visit to Venezuela where he met with President Nicolás Maduro and announced the opening of a technical assistance office in the country.
During Khan’s visit, the pair emphasized the complementary nature of the work of the ICC. The Hague-based tribunal is defined as a “complementary” court that should only open legal proceedings in cases in which national legal institutions fail to address alleged violations.
The Venezuelan government has gone to great lengths to demonstrate the state’s commitment to prosecute cases of human rights abuses from state security forces and thus avoid the reopening of a formal probe into alleged crimes against humanity.
The Pre-Trial Chamber I, made up of Presiding Judge Péter Kovács, along with Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou and María del Socorro Flores Liera, nonetheless felt that the domestic investigations being carried out by Venezuelan institutions were insufficient to satisfy the Chamber.
In its statement, the Venezuelan government reiterated its stance that the probe is politically motivated and forms part of a US-led plot designed to oust Maduro from power.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15795
The decision comes days after Khan’s most recent visit to Venezuela where he met with President Nicolás Maduro and announced the opening of a technical assistance office in the country.
During Khan’s visit, the pair emphasized the complementary nature of the work of the ICC. The Hague-based tribunal is defined as a “complementary” court that should only open legal proceedings in cases in which national legal institutions fail to address alleged violations.
The Venezuelan government has gone to great lengths to demonstrate the state’s commitment to prosecute cases of human rights abuses from state security forces and thus avoid the reopening of a formal probe into alleged crimes against humanity.
The Pre-Trial Chamber I, made up of Presiding Judge Péter Kovács, along with Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou and María del Socorro Flores Liera, nonetheless felt that the domestic investigations being carried out by Venezuelan institutions were insufficient to satisfy the Chamber.
In its statement, the Venezuelan government reiterated its stance that the probe is politically motivated and forms part of a US-led plot designed to oust Maduro from power.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15795
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Venezuela Rejects ‘Instrumentalization of Justice’ as the ICC
The Venezuelan government said it would appeal the decision, maintaining that the probe should be closed on the basis of complementarity.
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#News | The Campesino Struggle Platform has voiced support for a series of measures announced by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to back small and midsize countryside producers.
“Venezuelan campesinos felt encouraged by the announcements,” Andrés Alayo, one of the Platform’s spokespeople, told Venezuelanalysis. He stated that small-scale producers had “resisted heroically” in recent years, keeping up the supply of food in spite of the US blockade, a deteriorated infrastructure, fuel shortages and other obstacles.
On Thursday, June 22, Maduro held a televised broadcast alongside Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and Agriculture Minister Wilmer Castro Soteldo to unveil a series of policies focusing on the Venezuelan countryside.
“I’m announcing a new special fund to finance small producers throughout the country,” he said. “This is key, among many other things that we need to do.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15797
“Venezuelan campesinos felt encouraged by the announcements,” Andrés Alayo, one of the Platform’s spokespeople, told Venezuelanalysis. He stated that small-scale producers had “resisted heroically” in recent years, keeping up the supply of food in spite of the US blockade, a deteriorated infrastructure, fuel shortages and other obstacles.
On Thursday, June 22, Maduro held a televised broadcast alongside Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and Agriculture Minister Wilmer Castro Soteldo to unveil a series of policies focusing on the Venezuelan countryside.
“I’m announcing a new special fund to finance small producers throughout the country,” he said. “This is key, among many other things that we need to do.”
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15797
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Venezuela: Campesino Organization Welcomes Gov’t Pledges to Support
President Maduro promised a new credit line and larger crop purchases from the state.
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In this exclusive interview, Venezuelan poet Gustavo Pereira reflects on making poetry in the Global South, on the writing of Venezuela’s 1999 Constitution’s preamble, and on the role of culture in a revolutionary process.
"If a so-called revolutionary process does work to guarantee access to cultural goods, along with efforts at poverty alleviation, poverty itself will not be eradicated. Why? Because mental poverty is as harmful as material poverty. Moreover, a cultured person can be poor but not miserable: where there is culture, there is no misery. Being cultured and sensitive allows us to identify subtle mechanisms of domination– those of the mind – such as those in the content coming out of the Mecca of imperial hegemony: audiovisuals designed to exalt violence and primal instincts.
The government can and must work hard to increase access to (and production of) cultural goods, if a true transformation of the country is the goal."
https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/15794
"If a so-called revolutionary process does work to guarantee access to cultural goods, along with efforts at poverty alleviation, poverty itself will not be eradicated. Why? Because mental poverty is as harmful as material poverty. Moreover, a cultured person can be poor but not miserable: where there is culture, there is no misery. Being cultured and sensitive allows us to identify subtle mechanisms of domination– those of the mind – such as those in the content coming out of the Mecca of imperial hegemony: audiovisuals designed to exalt violence and primal instincts.
The government can and must work hard to increase access to (and production of) cultural goods, if a true transformation of the country is the goal."
https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/15794
Venezuelanalysis.com
Poetry and Revolution: A Conversation with Gustavo Pereira
The eminent poet who wrote the preamble of Venezuela’s Constitution reflects on the role of culture in the Bolivarian Process.
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Dozens of popular power collectives came together on Friday and Saturday for a meeting dedicated to communal democracy.
The “Reflections on Communal Democracy” summit, organized by the International Network of Communal Democracy, took place at the Panal 2021 Commune in western Caracas. It featured more than 100 participants from nearly 40 grassroots organizations.
The delegations that came from different regions of Venezuela were joined by representatives from Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) and Colombia’s People’s Congress.
The International Network of Communal Democracy brings together popular power experiences from Venezuela, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Catalunya, the Basque Country and Kurdistan to create spaces of debate as well as bring together like-minded emancipatory projects. It held a previous summit in Chile in November 2022.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15798
The “Reflections on Communal Democracy” summit, organized by the International Network of Communal Democracy, took place at the Panal 2021 Commune in western Caracas. It featured more than 100 participants from nearly 40 grassroots organizations.
The delegations that came from different regions of Venezuela were joined by representatives from Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) and Colombia’s People’s Congress.
The International Network of Communal Democracy brings together popular power experiences from Venezuela, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Catalunya, the Basque Country and Kurdistan to create spaces of debate as well as bring together like-minded emancipatory projects. It held a previous summit in Chile in November 2022.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15798
Venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuelan Popular Organizations Hold ‘Communal Democracy’ Forum
Members of 40 Chavista grassroots collectives discussed the prospects and challenges facing Venezuelan communes presently.
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With rainbow flags, music and colorful homemade costumes, the LGBTQI+ community celebrated the country’s Annual Pride Parade in Caracas to demand an end to discrimination.
Under the slogan "Equal in dignity and rights", organizers estimated that more than 50,000 people participated in Sunday’s march from Parque Miranda to Zona Rental in central Caracas, where they gathered to enjoy cultural performances and speeches from LGBTQI+ activists.
“This is a great opportunity to be free. We get this day to make the best out of it because on other days we have to hide due to all the discrimination,” a demonstrator told the press.
The event made headlines for the number of people that brought together, mostly youth, surpassing last year’s march which had around 20,000 attendees.
Read more: https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/15799
Under the slogan "Equal in dignity and rights", organizers estimated that more than 50,000 people participated in Sunday’s march from Parque Miranda to Zona Rental in central Caracas, where they gathered to enjoy cultural performances and speeches from LGBTQI+ activists.
“This is a great opportunity to be free. We get this day to make the best out of it because on other days we have to hide due to all the discrimination,” a demonstrator told the press.
The event made headlines for the number of people that brought together, mostly youth, surpassing last year’s march which had around 20,000 attendees.
Read more: https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/15799
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#News | Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) of seeking to “sow the deadly poison of fascism” in the country after senior officials spoke out against the political disenfranchisement of far-right opposition leader María Corina Machado.
"They want to sow the deadly poison of fascism, of hatred, of confrontation among everyone, through social media, paying millions to sow hatred, to try to put their claws on our country and hand it over to the US empire and to the old European racists and colonialists," denounced Maduro Monday during his weekly television program.
The Venezuelan president's comments came on the heels of a Monday statement from the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell who rejected the disqualification of Machado.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15800
"They want to sow the deadly poison of fascism, of hatred, of confrontation among everyone, through social media, paying millions to sow hatred, to try to put their claws on our country and hand it over to the US empire and to the old European racists and colonialists," denounced Maduro Monday during his weekly television program.
The Venezuelan president's comments came on the heels of a Monday statement from the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell who rejected the disqualification of Machado.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15800
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Venezuela’s Maduro Denounces US-EU Meddling Ahead of 2024
Venezuela rejected external “interference” after US and EU officials spoke out in defense of far-right opposition leader María Corina Machado.
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#Opinion | "In matters of love, we often expect our significant other to know what’s going on without having to say it. We assume our partner is some sort of fortune teller, who must also accept our actions and attitudes even if they do not understand them. This is not the most healthy of habits, and can lead to relationships getting hurt in the long run, or not surviving at all.
For the time being, that is more or less the relationship between the Venezuelan people and the state. We live in a state of constant guessing, self-explanations, scouring under rocks to find information that should be available to all. Take one example: a few weeks ago, water supply in my community shrunk to the point of almost vanishing.
I’ve been living here for seven years, so I have experienced the ups and downs of this issue. In the beginning, it was terrible. Then it got way better, then worse again. Surely, each of those phases had a good reason, a thorough explanation (even if that’s scant consolation when you don’t have water). But no one ever gave one. We never know why it happens, what changed."
https://venezuelanalysis.com/tales-resistance/15801
For the time being, that is more or less the relationship between the Venezuelan people and the state. We live in a state of constant guessing, self-explanations, scouring under rocks to find information that should be available to all. Take one example: a few weeks ago, water supply in my community shrunk to the point of almost vanishing.
I’ve been living here for seven years, so I have experienced the ups and downs of this issue. In the beginning, it was terrible. Then it got way better, then worse again. Surely, each of those phases had a good reason, a thorough explanation (even if that’s scant consolation when you don’t have water). But no one ever gave one. We never know why it happens, what changed."
https://venezuelanalysis.com/tales-resistance/15801
Venezuelanalysis.com
Tales of Resistance: Do We Have a Right to Information?
VA columnist Jessica Dos Santos talks about the Venezuelan authorities' frustrating habit of only delivering good news.
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The Venezuelan people celebrated 212 years of independence with a colorful civic-military parade as well as other ceremonies and cultural events around the country.
"Venezuela continues to stand up, with dignity and without kneeling to empires", said President Nicolás Maduro from the Paseo de los Próceres in Caracas.
On 5 July 1811, Venezuela's First National Congress approved and signed the Declaration of Independence, breaking away from the Spanish Crown and establishing the First Republic based on a range of premises including equality and freedom of expression.
The independence movement began on April 19, 1810, when the Venezuelan people demanded the resignation of Captain General of Venezuela Vicente Emparan. This was followed by the Venezuelan Independence War (1810-1823) and preceded by three centuries of indigenous resistance and slave rebellions against the colonizers.
"Venezuela continues to stand up, with dignity and without kneeling to empires", said President Nicolás Maduro from the Paseo de los Próceres in Caracas.
On 5 July 1811, Venezuela's First National Congress approved and signed the Declaration of Independence, breaking away from the Spanish Crown and establishing the First Republic based on a range of premises including equality and freedom of expression.
The independence movement began on April 19, 1810, when the Venezuelan people demanded the resignation of Captain General of Venezuela Vicente Emparan. This was followed by the Venezuelan Independence War (1810-1823) and preceded by three centuries of indigenous resistance and slave rebellions against the colonizers.
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