Venezuela

NOVANEWS   A great revolutionary life, lived in the service of humanity Hugo Rafael Chávez Frias was born on 28 July 1954, the second of six sons of impoverished primary school teachers. Chávez enrolled in Venezuela's military academy at the age of 17, graduating near the top of his class in 1975 After graduating, he was posted to a counter-insurgency unit charged with subduing an armed Maoist rebel group called Red Flag operating in a rural part of eastern Venezuela. There, in the late 1970s and early '80s, as a result of contact with these fighters, Chávez came to question the inequality in Venezuelan society that Red Flag had hoped to eliminate, and opposed the brutal treatment meted out to the guerrillas. [Let us give some thought to the brave communist fighters, whose principled ...

NOVANEWS by jodymcintyre The corridors are always packed in the Metropolitan Council of Popular Power for People with Disabilities, situated in a building just down the street from Plaza Diego Ibarra in Caracas. Wheelchairs come and go, sometimes squeezing to the side in order to let another person pass first. In a small area just behind the front door, which is frequently opened and closed as new visitors come inside, Jose Suarez is leaning back in his chair, relaxed, chatting with a friend. It seemed to contrast with the tension I had witnessed on the streets outside, in the days following Nicolas Maduro’s Presidential election victory on April 14th. “Firstly, yes I voted”, says Jose, turning his attention in my direction. “I voted this time and on October 7th as well. Really...

NOVANEWS Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela By AVN - MINCI. Axis of Logic "El Gringo" - Timothy Hallett Tracy, arrested today in Venezuela Most people who are following events in Venezuela since the April 14 election of President Nicolas Maduro, have now heard about the violence that followed the election. If you read the U.S. and European capitalist media you have read the two lies - one that the government caused the violence and the second - that the new Venezuelan government "oppressed peaceful demonstrations by the opposition." Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government reported that after he lost the election, opposition candidate Capriles Radonski called for the opposition to go to the streets and if you live in Venezuela as I do, you know what that means. Whi...

NOVANEWS Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro On April 14, Nicolas Maduro was elected Venezuela’s president after defeating opposition leader Henrique Capriles by receiving 50.7 percent of the vote against 49.1 percent, with a difference of 235,000 ballots. Capriles claims irregularities had taken place. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has slammed US President Barack Obama and called him the ‘grand chief of devils.’ Maduro made the comment during a speech on Saturday as a response to Obama’s interview with a Spanish-language television network a day earlier. While speaking to Univision, Obama did not say whether Washington recognized Maduro as the new president of Venezuela. “Coming out of Central America, Obama let loose with a bunch of impertinent remarks, insolent stuff… He i...

NOVANEWS   CEPR,-  A statistical analysis by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has shown that if Venezuelan opposition claims that Nicolás Maduro’s victory was obtained by fraud were true, it is practically impossible to have obtained the result that was found in an audit of 53% of electronic voting machines that took place on the evening of Venezuela’s April 14 elections.  The odds of this occurring would be far less than one in 25 thousand trillion. Photo Prensa Presidential “The U.S. government must know this, too,” said CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot, economist and co-author of a forthcoming paper with economist and computer scientist David Rosnick. “So it is difficult to explain why they are refusing to recognize the elected president – in opposition to all of...

NOVANEWS Answering the slanders Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez Frias has died, and true to form, the vultures are circling. The establishment press and so-called “human rights” organizations are dusting off all the old slanders and lies in new articles and reports. In this alternative version of history, Chávez was an incorrigible, populist autocrat, whose sunny-sounding vision of uplifting the poor was nothing but a façade covering a corrupt, decaying dictatorship offering only the opposite of its promises. While a few pundits have the decency to obliquely mention a few of the achievements of the Chávez government, others have absolutely no shame. Human Rights Watch, for instance, self-appointed defender of all that is right and good, has truly outdone itself—publishing a denunciation ...

NOVANEWS Authorities nab Timothy Tracy, accused of fomenting post-election violence, on his way out of the country Times of Israel CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A 35-year-old filmmaker from California has been arrested by Venezuelan authorities who are accusing him of fomenting post-election violence on behalf of the US government. President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday that he personally ordered Timothy Tracy’s arrest on suspicion of “creating violence in the cities of this country.” Venezuela’s interior minister said Tracy was working for US intelligence, paying right-wing youth groups to hold violent demonstrations in order to destabilize the country after Maduro’s narrow election win last week. Friends and family of Tracy told The Associated Press that he had been in Venezuela since last...

NOVANEWS On the day of Maduro's inauguration By Emelie Rosenblatt 'Socialist students promote peace' Photo: Emelie Rosenblatt Venezuelans take oath along with Meduro. Photo: Emelie Rosenblatt Written from a state that is heavily Afro-Venezuelan. At 6 a.m., people began to gather in the plaza of San José de Barlovento, a town at the forefront of the Afro-Venezuelan struggle. Individuals and groups representing different social missions and municipal agencies waited to board buses to Caracas to witness the swearing in of Nicolás Maduro Moros as president of Venezuela. It was at the end of a tense week marked by violent attacks from the right wing that left eight of Maduro’s supporters dead and a number of free clinics and subsidized supermarkets burned to the ground. On board a bus ...

NOVANEWS   Since the announcement of the election results, the opposition inside of Venezuela has been trying to destabilise the country. Socialist activists and supporters of the Bolivarian revolution have been killed and attacked by armed opposition thugs. At the same time there have been attacks and arson against CDI health clinics, Simoncito nurseries, PSUV offices, Mercal and PDVAL supermarkets, and state and community media- a clear sign of the determination of the oligarchs and their supporters to try and wipe out the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution.  In the midst of all of this, the US government, OAS, Spanish government, and the EU have refused to accept the results of the election process in Venezuela and are demanding a recount of the vote. These are the same forces tha...