🇻🇪🗣 INTERVIEW 🗣🇻🇪
THE COMMUNARD UNION, CHÁVEZ's IDEAS IN ACTION: A CONVERSATION WITH JUAN LENZO
The Communard Union is a grassroots organization that has set communal society its strategic horizon. For two years the Union has been working throughout the country in a heroic effort to re-politicize and reactivate Venezuelan communes and related projects.
In this interview, we talk to Juan “Juancho” Lenzo. He is a co-founder of Tatuy Televisión, a media project that is committed to the Chavista grassroots movement, and the Communard Union’s communications coordinator.
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THE COMMUNARD UNION, CHÁVEZ's IDEAS IN ACTION: A CONVERSATION WITH JUAN LENZO
The Communard Union is a grassroots organization that has set communal society its strategic horizon. For two years the Union has been working throughout the country in a heroic effort to re-politicize and reactivate Venezuelan communes and related projects.
In this interview, we talk to Juan “Juancho” Lenzo. He is a co-founder of Tatuy Televisión, a media project that is committed to the Chavista grassroots movement, and the Communard Union’s communications coordinator.
Read full article 👉👉👉 here
#Communes #CommunardUnion #Chávez
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🇻🇪📰 NEWS 📰🇻🇪
VENEZUELA REJECTS ACCUSATIONS OF ELECTION MEDDLING IN PERU
Venezuela was a feature in the presidential race, with right-wing figures and defeated candidate Keiko Fujimori campaigning against “communism” and claiming Peru would end up like Venezuela in the event of a Castillo win. The large Venezuelan immigrant community, which has faced several xenophobic incidents, was also a campaign theme.
The Venezuelan opposition likewise joined the anti-Castillo camp, with far-right leader Leopoldo López flying to Peru on the eve of the election to endorse Fujimori. López is currently residing in Spain, having escaped from house arrest during a failed coup in April 2019. He then resided in the Spanish embassy for 18 months before fleeing the country. Caracas has demanded his extradition.
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#Peru #PedroCastillo #Pastrana
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VENEZUELA REJECTS ACCUSATIONS OF ELECTION MEDDLING IN PERU
Venezuela was a feature in the presidential race, with right-wing figures and defeated candidate Keiko Fujimori campaigning against “communism” and claiming Peru would end up like Venezuela in the event of a Castillo win. The large Venezuelan immigrant community, which has faced several xenophobic incidents, was also a campaign theme.
The Venezuelan opposition likewise joined the anti-Castillo camp, with far-right leader Leopoldo López flying to Peru on the eve of the election to endorse Fujimori. López is currently residing in Spain, having escaped from house arrest during a failed coup in April 2019. He then resided in the Spanish embassy for 18 months before fleeing the country. Caracas has demanded his extradition.
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#Peru #PedroCastillo #Pastrana
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🇻🇪📰 NEWS 📰🇻🇪
US CONGRESSMAN URGES BIDEN TO END 'MISGUIDED AND IMMORAL' VENEZUELAN SANCTIONS
Representative McGovern follows a number of Democrats in calling for sanctions relief. Ilhan Omar, Jesús García, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy penned letters earlier this year asking the Biden administration to revise its sanctions policy amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
McGovern’s letter was welcomed by a number of international actors, including the Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). “There is no longer any way to hide the fact, which every economist knows, that the terrible suffering and death that Venezuela has experienced in recent years is overwhelmingly a result of economic collapse and deprivation caused by US sanctions,” said Mark Weisbrot, the think tank’s co-director.
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US CONGRESSMAN URGES BIDEN TO END 'MISGUIDED AND IMMORAL' VENEZUELAN SANCTIONS
Representative McGovern follows a number of Democrats in calling for sanctions relief. Ilhan Omar, Jesús García, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy penned letters earlier this year asking the Biden administration to revise its sanctions policy amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
McGovern’s letter was welcomed by a number of international actors, including the Washington DC-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). “There is no longer any way to hide the fact, which every economist knows, that the terrible suffering and death that Venezuela has experienced in recent years is overwhelmingly a result of economic collapse and deprivation caused by US sanctions,” said Mark Weisbrot, the think tank’s co-director.
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#US #DemocraticParty #Sanctions
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🇻🇪 Get up to speed with our Venezuela Basic Facts page!
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🇻🇪🗣 INTERVIEW 🗣🇻🇪
THE COMMUNARD UNION, CHÁVEZ's IDEAS IN ACTION: A CONVERSATION WITH JUAN LENZO
Inspired by Chávez’s ideas, the Communard Union was born as a space to link up communal efforts in a large national organization that would allow us to break with mere localism, overcoming the isolation of the different Venezuelan grassroots projects. In this way, the Communard Union seeks to create an integrated project with a nationwide vision and with a plan to transform the country.
Currently, more than twenty projects from different regions are being integrated into the Communard Union. This is being done by the Argelia Laya Brigade, which promotes the connections in organization, exchange, production, communication, and integral defense of the territories.
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#Communes #CommunardUnion #Chávez
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THE COMMUNARD UNION, CHÁVEZ's IDEAS IN ACTION: A CONVERSATION WITH JUAN LENZO
Inspired by Chávez’s ideas, the Communard Union was born as a space to link up communal efforts in a large national organization that would allow us to break with mere localism, overcoming the isolation of the different Venezuelan grassroots projects. In this way, the Communard Union seeks to create an integrated project with a nationwide vision and with a plan to transform the country.
Currently, more than twenty projects from different regions are being integrated into the Communard Union. This is being done by the Argelia Laya Brigade, which promotes the connections in organization, exchange, production, communication, and integral defense of the territories.
Read full article 👉👉👉 here
#Communes #CommunardUnion #Chávez
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Born on February 6, 1929, Fabricio Ojeda grew up in the small rural town of Bocono, Trujillo State. At just 17, he joined the Democratic Republic Union (URD), a grassroots political force engaged in social justice.
Ojeda became a journalist and used his role as a reporter in the Miraflores Presidential Palace to help overthrow Venezuela's last known dictator Marcos Perez Jiménez (1952-1958). He was president of the Patriotic Junta, the civic-military coalition that organized the plot.
However, the popular victory was co-opted by US-backed members of the coalition, which resulted in the ‘Pact of PuntoFijo,’ signed on October 31, 1958. This was followed by four decades of bi-partisan power in favor of the country’s political elites.
Rejecting the new US-backed government, Fabricio Ojeda resigned from Congress on June 30, 1962, and founded a guerrilla movement, the Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN). His resignation letter remains a source of inspiration for people's struggles today.
The popular leader was captured on June 21, 1966, and, four days later, he was found dead in a prison cell with signs of torture. Authorities alleged a suicide.
Former President Hugo Chávez admired Ojeda's struggles for social justice and opened an investigation of his death.
In January 2017, Ojeda's remains were taken to the National Pantheon in Caracas, and he was bestowed with Venezuelan Liberators' Order First Class.
#Venezuela #FabricioOjeda #pactodepuntofijo #revolutionaryleader #popularleader #socialjustice #guerrilla #antiimperialism
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Ojeda became a journalist and used his role as a reporter in the Miraflores Presidential Palace to help overthrow Venezuela's last known dictator Marcos Perez Jiménez (1952-1958). He was president of the Patriotic Junta, the civic-military coalition that organized the plot.
However, the popular victory was co-opted by US-backed members of the coalition, which resulted in the ‘Pact of PuntoFijo,’ signed on October 31, 1958. This was followed by four decades of bi-partisan power in favor of the country’s political elites.
Rejecting the new US-backed government, Fabricio Ojeda resigned from Congress on June 30, 1962, and founded a guerrilla movement, the Armed Forces for National Liberation (FALN). His resignation letter remains a source of inspiration for people's struggles today.
The popular leader was captured on June 21, 1966, and, four days later, he was found dead in a prison cell with signs of torture. Authorities alleged a suicide.
Former President Hugo Chávez admired Ojeda's struggles for social justice and opened an investigation of his death.
In January 2017, Ojeda's remains were taken to the National Pantheon in Caracas, and he was bestowed with Venezuelan Liberators' Order First Class.
#Venezuela #FabricioOjeda #pactodepuntofijo #revolutionaryleader #popularleader #socialjustice #guerrilla #antiimperialism
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🇻🇪📰 NEWS 📰🇻🇪
VENEZUELA BLASTS 'US-SCRIPTED' INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION DONOR CONFERENCE AS 'MEDIA FARCE'
The Venezuelan government has slammed the holding of an ‘International Donor Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants’ last Thursday in Canada.
The event was jointly organized by the Canadian, US, and Spanish governments alongside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Regional Inter-Institutional Coordination Platform for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants (R4V). Similar conferences were held in Belgium and Spain in 2019 and 2020, respectively, with the Spanish conference generating US $3 billion in pledges.
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#Migration #UN #UNHCR
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VENEZUELA BLASTS 'US-SCRIPTED' INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION DONOR CONFERENCE AS 'MEDIA FARCE'
The Venezuelan government has slammed the holding of an ‘International Donor Conference in Solidarity with Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants’ last Thursday in Canada.
The event was jointly organized by the Canadian, US, and Spanish governments alongside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Regional Inter-Institutional Coordination Platform for Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants (R4V). Similar conferences were held in Belgium and Spain in 2019 and 2020, respectively, with the Spanish conference generating US $3 billion in pledges.
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#Migration #UN #UNHCR
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🇻🇪🗣 OPINION 🗣🇻🇪
THE IMPORTANCE OF WAGES FOR MILLIONS OF VENEZUELAN WORKERS
Venezuelan economist Pascualina Curcio takes a look at Venezuela’s wage situation, arguing that wealth inequality has risen sharply in recent years despite a “socialist” rhetoric.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF WAGES FOR MILLIONS OF VENEZUELAN WORKERS
Venezuelan economist Pascualina Curcio takes a look at Venezuela’s wage situation, arguing that wealth inequality has risen sharply in recent years despite a “socialist” rhetoric.
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#Wages #PascualinaCurcio #Economy
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🇻🇪📰 NEWS 📰🇻🇪
VENEZUELA BLASTS 'US-SCRIPTED' INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION DONOR CONFERENCE AS 'MEDIA FARCE'
Last Friday, the UNHCR released its annual Global Report in which Venezuelan migration was a key element. According to UN 2020 data, Venezuelan migration has remained steady at roughly 5.4 million, of which 85% live in Latin America.
Out of the total, 171,000 are considered refugees, 851,000 asylum seekers, 2.5 million have legal residencies and 3.85 million are “displaced persons.” In contrast to refugees, the UN defines displaced persons as those “who are likely to be in need of international protection under the criteria contained in the Cartagena Declaration, but who have not applied for asylum.”
The report goes on to indicate that while 130,000 migrants returned to Venezuela in 2020, the total number of “displaced persons” has risen 300,000 from 2019.
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VENEZUELA BLASTS 'US-SCRIPTED' INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION DONOR CONFERENCE AS 'MEDIA FARCE'
Last Friday, the UNHCR released its annual Global Report in which Venezuelan migration was a key element. According to UN 2020 data, Venezuelan migration has remained steady at roughly 5.4 million, of which 85% live in Latin America.
Out of the total, 171,000 are considered refugees, 851,000 asylum seekers, 2.5 million have legal residencies and 3.85 million are “displaced persons.” In contrast to refugees, the UN defines displaced persons as those “who are likely to be in need of international protection under the criteria contained in the Cartagena Declaration, but who have not applied for asylum.”
The report goes on to indicate that while 130,000 migrants returned to Venezuela in 2020, the total number of “displaced persons” has risen 300,000 from 2019.
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#Migration #UN #UNHCR
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🇻🇪 The Bicentenary Peoples' Congress opened on Monday in Caracas with delegates from 123 countries to reinforce international solidarity and take part in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Carabobo.
The four-day event debated global politics, the crisis of capitalism, US sanctions, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on humanity and collective action.
The People's Congress executive secretary, Andreína Tarazón, highlighted the event's effort "to deepen, to build and to reach a scope that allows us to develop an agenda for a continental struggle.”
Former Bolivia President Evo Morales was among the international guests.
An international delegation also met with the Pioneros Movement (Campamento de Pioneros y Pioneras "22 de Enero") in Chacao municipality, Miranda state, to share experiences on urban housing struggles.
#peoplescongress #internationalsolidarity #venezuelasolidarity #USsanctions #sanctionskill☠︎︎ #socialmovements #battleofcarabobo #200añosbatalladecarabobo #bicentenariobatallacarabobo #politics #crisisofcapitalism #covid19 #socialism #worldpolitics
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The four-day event debated global politics, the crisis of capitalism, US sanctions, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on humanity and collective action.
The People's Congress executive secretary, Andreína Tarazón, highlighted the event's effort "to deepen, to build and to reach a scope that allows us to develop an agenda for a continental struggle.”
Former Bolivia President Evo Morales was among the international guests.
An international delegation also met with the Pioneros Movement (Campamento de Pioneros y Pioneras "22 de Enero") in Chacao municipality, Miranda state, to share experiences on urban housing struggles.
#peoplescongress #internationalsolidarity #venezuelasolidarity #USsanctions #sanctionskill☠︎︎ #socialmovements #battleofcarabobo #200añosbatalladecarabobo #bicentenariobatallacarabobo #politics #crisisofcapitalism #covid19 #socialism #worldpolitics
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🇻🇪📰 NEWS 📰🇻🇪
VENEZUELA: MADURO PROMISES A 'REVOLUTION' OF JUSTICE AND PRISON SYSTEM
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro committed to a thorough overhaul of the country’s judicial and prison system in order to reduce overcrowding and the delayed administration of justice.
“We have come to a conclusion: in Venezuela, at this stage of the construction of the new state, a deep and accelerated revolution is needed to shake up and transform the entire national justice system,” said Maduro.
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#Reform #Justice #Prisons
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VENEZUELA: MADURO PROMISES A 'REVOLUTION' OF JUSTICE AND PRISON SYSTEM
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro committed to a thorough overhaul of the country’s judicial and prison system in order to reduce overcrowding and the delayed administration of justice.
“We have come to a conclusion: in Venezuela, at this stage of the construction of the new state, a deep and accelerated revolution is needed to shake up and transform the entire national justice system,” said Maduro.
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#Reform #Justice #Prisons
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🇻🇪📸 GALLERY 📸🇻🇪
VENEZUELA CELEBRATES 200 YEARS OF THE ANTI-COLONIALIST BATTLE OF CARABOBO
Venezuela celebrated the 200th anniversary of the decisive anti-colonialist Battle of Carabobo with a civic-military parade and a number of cultural events.
The Battle of Carabobo was the climax of the Venezuelan Independence War (1810-1823). Fought on June 24, 1821, Simón Bolívar and the patriotic army’s victory secured the country’s liberation from Spanish rule after over 300 years of constant indigenous resistance and slave rebellions against the colonizers.
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VENEZUELA CELEBRATES 200 YEARS OF THE ANTI-COLONIALIST BATTLE OF CARABOBO
Venezuela celebrated the 200th anniversary of the decisive anti-colonialist Battle of Carabobo with a civic-military parade and a number of cultural events.
The Battle of Carabobo was the climax of the Venezuelan Independence War (1810-1823). Fought on June 24, 1821, Simón Bolívar and the patriotic army’s victory secured the country’s liberation from Spanish rule after over 300 years of constant indigenous resistance and slave rebellions against the colonizers.
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#BattleCarabobo #24June #History
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🇻🇪🗣 INTERVIEW 🗣🇻🇪
A COUNTERHEGEMONIC APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS: A CONVERSATION WITH ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ PLESSMANN
Antonio González Plessmann has been a militant of the Venezuelan left and a human rights activist since the 1980s. As a former vice-rector of the National Experimental Security University (UNES), he participated in the police reform that began in 2006.
Today González Plessmann is part of Surgentes, a research and education collective committed to human rights and the democratization of society. In this interview, he talks to us about a recent Surgentes report research noscriptd “Turn to the Right and Repression to the Left: Human Rights Violations in the Popular Camp,” arguing that the Venezuelan government has turned to the right in both an economic and political sense.
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#HumanRights #Repression #Surgentes
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A COUNTERHEGEMONIC APPROACH TO HUMAN RIGHTS: A CONVERSATION WITH ANTONIO GONZÁLEZ PLESSMANN
Antonio González Plessmann has been a militant of the Venezuelan left and a human rights activist since the 1980s. As a former vice-rector of the National Experimental Security University (UNES), he participated in the police reform that began in 2006.
Today González Plessmann is part of Surgentes, a research and education collective committed to human rights and the democratization of society. In this interview, he talks to us about a recent Surgentes report research noscriptd “Turn to the Right and Repression to the Left: Human Rights Violations in the Popular Camp,” arguing that the Venezuelan government has turned to the right in both an economic and political sense.
Read full article 👉👉👉 here
#HumanRights #Repression #Surgentes
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🇻🇪📰 NEWS 📰🇻🇪
VENEZUELA: MADURO PROMISES A 'REVOLUTION' OF JUSTICE AND PRISON SYSTEM
As is common in prisons throughout the region, the state does not exercise control over all facilities, with organized crime inside the prisons often controlling access to basic services.
A previous effort to address conditions in prisons failed to solve the overcrowding problem and Venezuela’s prisons have seen a number of riots in recent years.
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#Reform #Justice #Prisons
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VENEZUELA: MADURO PROMISES A 'REVOLUTION' OF JUSTICE AND PRISON SYSTEM
As is common in prisons throughout the region, the state does not exercise control over all facilities, with organized crime inside the prisons often controlling access to basic services.
A previous effort to address conditions in prisons failed to solve the overcrowding problem and Venezuela’s prisons have seen a number of riots in recent years.
Read full article 👉👉👉 here
#Reform #Justice #Prisons
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🇻🇪📸 GALLERY 📸🇻🇪
VENEZUELA CELEBRATES 200 YEARS OF THE ANTI-COLONIALIST BATTLE OF CARABOBO
The historic landmark's commemorations began Thursday at midnight with fireworks, followed by a formal ceremony at Caracas's National Pantheon to pay tribute to Simón Bolívar. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López stated that Venezuela would continue to be an "example of dignity" in the struggle for sovereignty amidst foreign aggressions.
Likewise, a traditional civic-military parade took place in the Carabobo Battlefield, located in Carabobo state, where the historic battle occurred 200 years ago. President Nicolás Maduro stressed how Carabobo was key to “end 300 years of Spanish rule.”
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#BattleCarabobo #24June #History
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VENEZUELA CELEBRATES 200 YEARS OF THE ANTI-COLONIALIST BATTLE OF CARABOBO
The historic landmark's commemorations began Thursday at midnight with fireworks, followed by a formal ceremony at Caracas's National Pantheon to pay tribute to Simón Bolívar. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López stated that Venezuela would continue to be an "example of dignity" in the struggle for sovereignty amidst foreign aggressions.
Likewise, a traditional civic-military parade took place in the Carabobo Battlefield, located in Carabobo state, where the historic battle occurred 200 years ago. President Nicolás Maduro stressed how Carabobo was key to “end 300 years of Spanish rule.”
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#BattleCarabobo #24June #History
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🇻🇪🗣 OPINION 🗣🇻🇪
CRISIS & CRITIQUE: VACCINES AND THE BLOCKADE 'VIRUS'
VA columnist Ociel López looks at some of the consequences of the recent payment block of Venezuela’s COVAX vaccine purchase.
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#OcielLopez #Covid19 #Sanctions
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CRISIS & CRITIQUE: VACCINES AND THE BLOCKADE 'VIRUS'
VA columnist Ociel López looks at some of the consequences of the recent payment block of Venezuela’s COVAX vaccine purchase.
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#OcielLopez #Covid19 #Sanctions
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Venezuela's largest party - the ruling PSUV United Socialist Party - is holding the first stage in its primaries today to select candidates for the November 21 regional and local elections.
What might be some of the consequences of this internal process?
What might be some of the consequences of this internal process?
Anonymous Poll
33%
They will force other parties to do likewise
0%
They will strengthen local PSUV power structures of mid-level politicians upholding the status quo
11%
They are just a show to distract the grassroots
11%
They will stimulate higher general participation in November
0%
They will guarantee that grassroot leaders are selected
0%
The PSUV can't be trusted to uphold the results if they challenge the status quo
0%
They allow the govt to strengthen the participative democracy rhetoric on an international scale
11%
They will allow criticisms to be voiced
33%
They will deepen internal divisions in the PSUV