Venezuela

NOVANEWS By jodymcintyre Every story has a motive; a thought that should always be kept in mind when reading the news.  Is it any wonder that we are only targeted, on a daily basis, with negative images from around the world.  In Egypt, all has become chaos thanks to “Islamists” taking over.  In Mali, the same situation would have engulfed another African, Muslim country if it were not for European soldiers restoring order.  In England, the government’s policies, many of which came into effect yesterday and throughout the rest of April, will make thousands of families homeless.  When you consider the sweep and rapidity of the tide of Conservative ideology scarring the face of England, it is hard to remember that they never actually won an election!  Here in Venezuela, an alternative to th...

NOVANEWS Hugo Chavez: Marxist Money Power Stooge March 27, 2013 During his reign, the number of private sector jobs declined by an astonishing 30%. Half of Venezuelans depend on the informal economy to survive. Public payrolls have ballooned. Anthony Migchels looks at Hugo Chavez' real legacy. by Anthony Migchels (henrymakow.com)  Hugo Chávez's fierce resistance to US Imperialism was much appreciated but his domestic policies were openly Marxist. His most notable legacy is the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, dedicated at social, economic and political integration of Latin America. In short: he was a globalist. Different a-hole. Same shit. Was Chávez also a Mason?  There's this Masonic handshake with Obama. His model, Simon Bolivar, definitely was. Bolivar led the rise against Span...

NOVANEWS Answering the slanders Chávez had a broad mandate from the masses of people not only to create social programs but to transform society. 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, ...

novanews by jodymcintyre Plaza Bolivar was one of the first places I visited after arriving in Caracas.  A relaxing spot in an otherwise bustling city, with a collectively-run café serving the best hot chocolate imaginable on the corner, means there is not much more you could ask for.   On the pedestrianised road that runs from the nearest Metro station to the Plaza, Ofel greets me with a “Como estas, hermano?”  When I ask him the same, his one-word answer never differs; “Pa’lante!”  “Onwards!”   This morning, Ofel is serving his customers with sweets and mobile phone calls from the seat of his electric wheelchair, just as he does every day.  This is the only way I have known Ofel, working independently, travelling through the city on his own, and so I presume it is ...

novanews by jodymcintyre The press seems to have developed in a positive way since I first visited Venezuela, in December 2011.  Yes, the richer sections of society still possess the largest media interests, but alternative sources of information are flourishing. Ciudad CCS is a free newspaper, distributed daily across the company.  There are elements of this paper that I have been particularly impressed by, and would like to draw attention to.  On page ten of each edition, we find a section entitled “Denuncia la gente”, or “The people denounce”.  One message reads, “The schools in San Juan are in a bad state.  Make a call to the Ministry of Education.”  Another person writes, “The butcher El Barbecho is selling a kilo of meat for double what it should cost.  The authorities need t...

novanews by jodymcintyre Hugo Chavez was President of Venezuela for fourteen years.  A lot can change in such a period of time.  How interesting it has been to read over the last couple of days a volume of speeches all taken from his first year in office, 1999.  Yes, many things have taken place in fourteen years but in people, in their character, most things remain as they were. Chavez always spoke about the importance of communication in a language that people can immediately understand and relate to.  In this collection, the campaign to elect a Constituent Assembly becomes three blows of a round of boxing, and the revolution becomes a baseball match that cannot be considered over until the very last ‘out’.  After particularly pleasing electoral results, Chavez says they have hit...

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NOVANEWS by jodymcintyre The first time I travelled to Venezuela, I remember thinking about not only the difference in the political situation here and the positive developments that have occurred, but the fundamental contrast in the thinking behind those changes that would make them impossible in England.  It is that, in fact, which I believe makes it so hard for some people to understand, or even believe, what has been happening in Venezuela over the last fifteen years.  Unfortunately, we still live under the law of [well, a Queen!] a government that seems primarily driven by profit and money, rather than the well-being of human beings and society. I am sure that the recent Budget would serve to confirm this, although I cannot say I have studied its publication.  It seems relevan...

novanews By Tony Cartalucci Global Research US corporate-financier funded think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), declared in its “post-Chávez checklist for US policymakers,” that the US must move quickly to reorganize Venezuela according to US interests. Upon its checklist were “key demands”:  The ouster of narco-kingpins who now hold senior posts in government The respect for a constitutional succession The adoption of meaningful electoral reforms to ensure a fair campaign environment and a transparent vote count in expected presidential elections; and The dismantling of Iranian and Hezbollah networks in Venezuela In reality, AEI is talking about dismantling entirely the obstacles that have prevented the US and the corporate-financier interests that direct ...

novanews By Salim Lamrani Global Research, President Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5, 2013 of cancer at age 58, marked forever the history of Venezuela and Latin America. 1. Never in the history of Latin America, has a political leader had such incontestable democratic legitimacy. Since coming to power in 1999, there were 16 elections in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez won 15, the last on October 7, 2012. He defeated his rivals with a margin of 10-20 percentage points. 2. All international bodies, from the European Union to the Organization of American States, to the Union of South American Nations and the Carter Center, were unanimous in recognizing the transparency of the vote counts. 3. James Carter, former U.S. President, declared that Venezuela’s electoral system was “the best in the ...