Venezuela: Chavistas Debate the Pace of Change
Mural in the barrio of La Vega, Caracas. Photo by Sujatha Fernandes. The violent anti-government protests that shook Venezuela ...
Just How Radical Is President Nicolás Maduro?
This piece was published in the Summer 2013 issue of the NACLA Report. On April 2, the first day of ...
What Accounts for Chávez’s Success?
Many accounts of recent Venezuelan developments imply or state explicitly that with the late Hugo Chávez out of the ...
Latin America Unity Takes Center Stage at Cartagena Summit
Despite surprises in the lead-up to the Sixth Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, on April 14–15, the ...
Chávez Pushes the Limits: Radicalization and Discontent in Venezuela
On January 13, several spontaneous protests broke out in Caracas in response to the Hugo Chávez government’s decision to apply ...
A New Model With Rough Edges: Venezuela’s Community Councils
The main country road that passes by Las Cuadras, a poor rural area in the zone of El Valle, in ...
Toward a ‘Multipolar World’: Using Oil Diplomacy to Sever Venezuela’s Dependence
In June, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez made his sixth diplomatic trip to Iran. Discussions were held there, as well as ...
LOCAL ROADS TO POWER
In the 1980s, various leftists including Andres IVelsquez of the Causa R and MAS' Carlos Tablante gained prominence at the ...
The Assault on Benefits in Venezuela
Latin America continues to lead the way in the free-market overhaul of social benefits. This lead was just widened when ...
MAS and the Causa R in Regional Power
MAS AND THE CAUSA R IN REGIONAL POWER Venezuela's two major leftist parties have made important advances at the regional ...
An Interview with MAS’ Teodoro Petkoff
Movement Toward Sociahsm (MAS) has been Venezuela's third party, and the largest party on the Left, since the 1 970s ...
TOURISM RUN AMOK
The completion in 1990 of an asphalt highway connecting Ciudad Guayana in the northeast to Santa Elena de UairCn on ...
