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30th July 07, Center for Economic and Policy Research Washington, DC: A new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research looks at the Venezuelan economy during the last eight years and finds that it does not fit the mold of an "oil boom headed for a bust," as is commonly believed.
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Five years after U.S.-funded groups were associated with a failed coup against Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, the U.S. government's political aid programs continue to meddle in Venezuelan domestic politics. A new focus of the "democracy builders" in Venezuela and around the world is support for nonviolent resistance by civil society organizations.
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 14th July 07 - Dr Zeki Ergas ~ STWR Contributing Writer
Almost a year has passed since I last wrote an essay on socialism in Venezuela and Latin America. A lot has happened during that time, and I reckoned that it was time to ‘revisit’ the subject with a second, more in depth, essay. The appeal of socialism as an ideology, a theory, an aspiration is as strong today as it was in the past, but its realisation, practical application continues to be difficult and problematic. Why is that so? Who is to blame? What can be done about that? Was Hobbes right who argued -- a long time ago and quite convincingly in the Leviathan -- that man is bad by nature and that social life would not be possible without his submission by superior authority, symbolised or represented by the ‘Sovereign’? |
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 13th July 07, Jorge Castañeda, Newsweek
The last week of June was probably the Bush administration's worst period ever in terms of Latin America policy. Its nemeses in the hemisphere—Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Cuba's Fidel Castro, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, Bolivia's Evo Morales, Ecuador's Rafael Correa and perhaps soon Guatemala's Alvaro Colón and even Argentina's Néstor Kirchner—form an increasingly cohesive coalition and are reaching out to rogues on other continents. After neglecting Latin America for five years, Washington's influence is at a low point. And its new rival, Russia, is gaining ground. |
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As the people of Latin America build democracies from the bottom up, the symbols of power are changing. What used to be emblems of poverty and oppression—indigenous clothing and speech, the labels “campesino” and “landless worker”—are increasingly the symbols of new power.
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 16th May 07 - Chris Carlson, Venezualanalysis.com First used in Serbia in 2000, Washington has now perfected a new imperial strategy to maintain its supremacy around the globe. Whereas military invasions and installing dictatorships have traditionally been the way to control foreign populations and keep them out of the way of business, the U.S. government has now developed a new strategy that is not so messy or brutal, and much sleeker; so sleek, in fact, that it’s almost invisible. It was so invisible in Serbia that no one seemed to notice in 2000 when a regime was toppled, the country was opened to massive privatization, and huge public-sector industries, businesses, and natural resources fell into the hands of U.S. and multinational corporations. Likewise, few have noticed as countries in the former Soviet-bloc have recently been victims of the same strategy, with the exact same results. |
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14th May 07, Stuart Munckton, Green left Weekly Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez threatened a round of new nationalisations when he announced fresh plans on May 3 to develop Venezuela’s economy along pro-people lines. This followed the May 1 nationalisations of oil projects in the Orinoco Belt, believed to be home to the world’s largest oil reserves, which gave the state-owned oil company PDVSA at least 60% controlling share of existing ventures owned by five oil multinationals, worth US$17 billion. |
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