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Latin America: Chavez-Santos Summit in Colombia: UNASUR-Brokered Peace Breaks Out
Thursday, August 12 @ 16:48:00 AST |  By Francisco Dominguez
Secretary Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
August 12, 2010
The already bad relations between Venezuela and Colombia took a turn for the worse after the accusations made by the outgoing Uribe government's OAS representative, Luis Hoyos, who charged the Venezuelan government with harbouring Colombian guerrillas (1,500) and allowing guerrilla camps (85) inside its territory. The "evidence" - which has been pretty discredited - for this batch of accusations - as with previous ones - also came from the eight 'magical laptops' seized by Colombian military forces in an illegal military attack in March 1, 2009.
Chavez reacted by breaking off relations with Colombia, leading to a further worsening of the relations between the two nations, but sent his foreign minister to attend Santos' inauguration anyway. Uribe's response was to announce that his government was lodging a formal accusation against Venezuela in the Inter-American Committee of Human Rights and another formal charge against President Chavez personally to the International Criminal Court, one day before Juan Manuel Santos inauguration. Furthermore, Uribe, reportedly, announced he would be prepared to testify to the ICC against Hugo Chavez.
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Latin America: Venezuela: We cannot sail towards socialism on the capitalist Ship of State
Friday, July 30 @ 14:22:02 AST |
By Franz J. T. Lee
July 30, 2010
There has been a great interest in our last philosophic reflections
about the general character of class struggle and consciousness in
Venezuela and elsewhere; also about our views with reference to the
current aggressive threats against Venezuela; but also with regard to
the Oil Leaks in the
Gulf of Mexico. Our under and post graduate students, who are employed
in all walks of political life, have asked us to continue
with the simple clarification of some central current socialist
issues, like peace, war and emancipation.
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Latin America: Class Struggle and Consciousness in Venezuela: Some Socialist Reflections
Tuesday, July 27 @ 04:33:55 AST | By Franz J. T. Lee
July 27, 2010
On Sunday, July 25, 2010, President Hugo Chavez was warning that there
exists a very high probability of a coming United States military
invasion of Venezuela via Colombia. Chavez threatens not to send a drop
of oil to the USA should this happen.
Are we in Venezuela ready for the imminent international class struggle?
Nearly two centuries ago Ludwig
Feuerbach and Karl Marx have explained
how and to what degree the worker's mind is being bamboozled and
alienated;
as merchandise he is being reduced to mere boggling at wares in shop
windows.
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Latin America: Venezuela: What should never happen in the Orinoco Delta
Wednesday, June 23 @ 16:41:55 AST | By Franz J. T. Lee
June 23, 2010
We could make mistakes, err with reference to anti-capitalism or
pro-socialism, however, one thing is certain: the British Petroleum oil
disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the Shell oil catastrophe in the
Niger Delta in Africa should never occur in the Orinoco Delta.
Why? It would spell doom for the Bolivarian Revolution and for human emancipation in Latin America and the rest of the globe.
These disasters show who and what are really governing the world, are
ruling in the United States of America or in Nigeria: the multinational
corporations like BP, Shell, Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco, Repsol, etc.
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Latin America: Venezuela: The Imperfect Revolution
Sunday, May 30 @ 23:34:07 AST | By Eva Golinger
May 25th 2010 - The Chavez Code
If you come to Venezuela with glistening eyes, expecting to see the revolution of a romantic and passionate novel, don’t be disappointed when the complexities of reality burst your bubble. While revolution does withhold a sense of romanticism, it’s also full of human error and the grit of everyday life in a society – a nation – undertaking the difficult and tumultuous process of total transformation.
Nothing is perfect here, in the country sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves. But everything is fascinating and intriguing, and the changes from past to present become more visible and tangible every day.
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Latin America: Fighting Corruption or Persecuting Political Opponents in Venezuela?
Friday, April 16 @ 12:25:42 AST | |
A Response to the New York Times
By James Suggett
April 13th 2010 - Venezuelanalysis.com
As Venezuela heads toward its fifteenth internationally monitored election in ten years[1], the international media assault against the democratically-elected Chavez government is intensifying. On April 3rd, New York Times correspondent Simon Romero lent a hand to Venezuela’s elite, neo-liberal opposition by warping positive news about the government’s anti-corruption efforts into a profoundly biased diatribe about supposed political persecution.
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Latin America: Permanent Aggression: War on the horizon in Latin America
Saturday, March 13 @ 23:28:55 AST | The Empire will stop at nothing to find mechanisms and techniques to achieve its final objective, and we cannot disregard the possibility of a military conflict in the near future. If the US places Venezuela on the “terrorist list” this year, we could be on the verge of a regional war.
By Eva Golinger
March 13, 2010 - chavezcode.com
March 12, 2010 "Information Clearing House" --- Latin America has suffered constant aggressions executed by Washington during the past two hundred years. Strategies and tactics of covert and overt warfare have been applied against different nations in the region, ranging from coup d’etats, assassinations, disappearances, torture, brutal dictatorships, atrocities, political persecution, economic sabotage, psychological operations, media warfare, biological warfare, subversion, counterinsurgency, paramiliary infiltration, diplomatic terrorism, blockades, electoral intervention to military invasions. Regardless of who’s in the White House – democrat or republican – when it comes to Latin America, the Empire’s policies remain the same.
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Latin America: Venezuela: From Revolution sui generis to Fifth International
Wednesday, February 10 @ 23:16:34 AST | By Franz J. T. Lee
February 10, 2010
A. Towards a New International
All previous Marxist Internationals
had a sound theoretical
revolutionary foundation. The ideological battles of reformism and
Stalinism, accompanied by brutal assassinations and witch-hunt trials,
against revolutionary theory, against brilliant men and women,
like Leon Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg, were so fierce that the ruling
classes
practically destroyed four promising emancipatory endeavors within 160
years. Plato died long ago but in capitalism his ideas are more alive
than ever. Leon Trotsky was assassinated on Latin American soil, but
his international 'dum spiro spero' (as long as I breathe I hope!), his
Fourth International still yearns for concrete realization, for
permanent world revolution, for emancipation in embryo.
In the attempt to revive massive international working class struggles,
inter alia, theoretically what have we in Venezuela especially to take
into account?
In this short commentary, for
Venezuela, and for the rest of the globe,
let us theoretically highlight some essential elements and reflections
which are indispensable for the building of a New International.
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Latin America: President Hugo Chavez on How to Tackle Climate Change
Thursday, December 24 @ 09:13:14 AST | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on How to Tackle Climate Change: "We Must Go from Capitalism to Socialism"
December 23rd 2009
by Amy Goodman - Democracy Now!
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez spared no criticism of the climate conference in Copenhagen. At a joint news conference he held with the Bolivian president Evo Morales on Friday afternoon—this was before President Obama announced the accord—Chavez called the proceedings undemocratic and accused world leaders of only seeking a face-saving agreement. He described President Obama as having won the "Nobel war prize" and said the world still smelled of sulfur, referring to his comments about President Bush at the United Nations last year. Well, shortly after the news conference, I caught up with President Chavez for a few minutes.
Amy Goodman: You sell more oil to the United States than any country but Canada. Your economy depends on oil, yet you are here at a climate change summit. What's your proposal?
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Latin America: Venezuelan President's Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen
Thursday, December 17 @ 20:31:20 AST | By Hugo Chavez
Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez:
Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, friends, I promise that I will not talk more than most have spoken this afternoon. Allow me an initial comment which I would have liked to make as part of the previous point which was expressed by the delegations of Brazil, China, India, and Bolivia. We were there asking to speak but it was not possible. Bolivia's representative said, my salute of course to Comrade President Evo Morales, who is there, President of the Republic of Bolivia.
[Audience applause]
She said among other things the following, I noted it here, she said the text presented is not democratic, it is not inclusive.
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Latin America: Venezuela: Philosophic historic glimpses of a possible Fifth International
Monday, December 07 @ 17:35:17 AST | By: Franz J. T. Lee
December 07, 2009
The darkness of the fleeting moment.
Nobody really lives in the here and now.
Thinking means venturing beyond.
The cat falls onto its four paws; who has
never learned to think falls into eternal yesterday.
(Anticipatory flashes from the Marxist, internationalist,
philosophy of hope of Ernst Bloch.)
Many comrades are excited about the
foundation of a Fifth International in 2010. Others, like Martha
Harnecker, are warning that a conditio sine qua non for such a gigantic
step is the creation of a 'new left culture', more precisely, of
excellent Marxist praxis and theory, a global tradition of scientific
and philosophic socialism, free of bureaucracy, elitism, sectarianism,
Stalinism, revisionism and reformism. We need a historic,
international, proletarian class consciousness and emancipatory praxis.
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Latin America: Venezuela and Iran Inaugurate Binational Fund, Advance Bilateral Relations
Monday, November 30 @ 06:26:21 AST | By James Suggett
November 26, 2009 - venezuelanalysis.com
In Caracas on Wednesday, Venezuela and Iran inaugurated a new binational development fund, signed accords that aim to boost Venezuela's agricultural and industrial production, and called Israel's recent declarations about Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran "a threat."
The meeting marked Ahmadinejad's fourth diplomatic visit to Venezuela. Since initiating bilateral relations nearly five years ago, the two countries have signed hundreds of economic cooperation accords that are worth billions of dollars, including a joint company to extract oil from Venezuela's Orinoco Oil Belt.
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Latin America: Fifth or New International? Preliminary Food for Human Emancipation
Monday, November 23 @ 03:54:18 AST | By Franz J. T. Lee
November 22, 2009
We welcome the revolutionary efforts of President Hugo Chavez of
Venezuela to found a global, effective, functioning workers
international. It is not an ad hoc aspiration, not a quantitative
endeavor; it is arduous, complex and dangerous. Let us show the
historic quintessence of all Marxist Internationals.
1. A
revolutionary and emancipatory International concerns what Marx
and
Engels understood by 'the emancipation of the proletariat, of all
working classes, is the work of the workers themselves.'
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Latin America: President Chavez insists: The Only Road is towards Socialism!
Thursday, November 19 @ 17:49:03 AST |
By Franz J. T. Lee
November 19, 2009
All true revolutionaries in Venezuela
insist that the only solution to the current imperialist threat is
socialism. On November 15, 2009, on the occasion of the elections for
the delegates of the congress of the United Socialist Party of
Venezuela (PSUV) President Hugo Chavez Frias again confirmed this
urgent endeavor. At this decisive stage of the Bolivarian Revolution,
the development of the 'young' Marx from the critique of religion to
criticism of the State, of the bourgeois revolution, to the defense of
human, proletarian emancipation, is very educative indeed. In fact,
Marx saved the concept emancipation and transformed it into a
proletarian weapon against de facto degenerate forms of reformist
'revolution' and 'revolutionary' reformism. As a result of bourgeois
'emancipation' no slave, no worker, no woman were ever liberated from
toil, domination and discrimination.
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Latin America: Venezuela: Serpentine Road from Bourgeois Revolution to Proletarian Emancipation
Tuesday, November 10 @ 23:06:55 AST |
By Franz J. T. Lee
November 10, 2009
In the third millennium the global belligerent conquest of 'Humania
South',
especially of the Caribbean, Central and South America, by the United
States of America, is in full
swing. However, on the historic world stage, in the wake of a possible
systemic capitalist collapse, an inexorable Pyrrhic war is raging that
is threatening to devour the super powers themselves. Poignantly,
in political
consonance with Rosa Luxemburg, Oscar Wilde has portrayed the
quintessence of the 'American Revolution' and of its disgraceful
aftermath:
"America is the only country that went
from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between." 1)
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