Venezuela

NOVANEWS By Michael Collins Piper Hugo Chavez—the colorful Venezuelan strongman, a popular figure throughout Latin America—is dead. Although the controlled media contrived to mislead Americans into perceiving Chavez as “anti-American,” the truth is that the bombastic South American icon was actually a forthright nationalist critic of the internationalist and imperialist forces often referred to as the New World Order. Like many who oppose the privately-owned Federal Reserve money monopoly which operates un-Constitutionally on American soil, Chavez was a critic of rampant global super-capitalism, which Chavez called “the demon.” There is no question Chavez knew the source of his high-powered opposition. In 2000, announcing a trip to Iraq, Chavez taunted his critics, remarking: “Imagine wha...

NOVANEWS by jodymcintyre Many tears roll from cheeks and seep into Venezuelan soil.  Yesterday afternoon, Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, President since first being elected in 1998 and a man who touched the hearts of many, passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer.  Who knows how he found the strength, almost six months ago now, to tour the country, speaking to crowds of hundreds of thousands on a daily basis, millions in Caracas, and expending every ounce of energy to continue on the path of a national project that has truly transformed people’s lives here.  Politically, Chavez was an international giant, and will be remembered across the continents.  In Latin America, as he strove for the unity proposed by Simon Bolivar before him.  He will be remembered by Muslims for his fear...

NOVANEWS Chavez: Another CIA assassination victim?   “Am I 100% certain that the CIA killed Hugo Chavez? Absolutely not. “It could have been non-governmental assassins working for the bankers.” I go on to discuss the sorry history of bankster assassinations of Latin American leaders brave enough to stand up for their own people. So we know that Chavez was assassinated. We know more or less who did it. As to the “why,” Greg Palast has ably filled in the details in his article, reprinted below. -KB Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chàvez, mi Amigo By Greg Palas Tuesday, March 5, 2013For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today. As a purgative for the crappola fed to Americans about Chavez, my foundation, The Palast Investigative Fund, is offering the film, Th...

NOVANEWS by Stephen Lendman   Venezuelans mourn. Chavismo lives! Bolivarianism is institutionalized. Venezuelans expect no less. They want no part of their ugly past. They’ll put their bodies on the line to prevent it. They did before. They’ll do it again. Bolivarianism is policy. It’s vital to preserve. It’s polar opposite neoliberal harshness. America and Venezuela are constitutional worlds apart. More on that below. On March 5, word came at 4:45PM. Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced it. “We have just received the most tragic and awful information,” he said. Hugo Chavez Frias died. “It’s a moment of deep pain.” “Those who die for life can’t be called dead,” he said. Supporters massed in Plaza Bolivar. It’s Caracas’ main square. “Chavez vive, la lucha sigue,” they chanted. “Cha...

NOVANEWS   The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from complications following surgery for cancer, is a huge loss to the revolutionary movement worldwide, and the Revolutionary Communist Group and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! joins with the people of Venezuela in mourning the loss of a great socialist leader. Hugo Chavez was first elected to power in 1998, following a military coup in 1992; elected again in 2000 under the new, progressive constitution of the Bolivarian Revolution. In 2002 a US-backed coup against him was defeated as working class Venezuelans poured out of the barrios in their hundreds of thousands to defend their president. He was re-elected as president with sweeping majorities in 2006 and again in 2013. Hugo Chavez was a political giant, under whose leadersh...

NOVANEWS Al Jazeera Venezuelans have begun seven days of national mourning after the announcement that their president, Hugo Chavez, died aged 58 after a long battle against cancer. The country’s vice-president, Nicolas Maduro – tipped as a likely successor – broke the news on Tuesday night, prompting a wave of grief in the nation’s streets. Chavez’s body will be escorted from the Caracas military hospital where he died from cancer to a military academy he considered his second home. His body will lie in state until a funeral on Friday to honour the leftist leader who ruled the oil-rich nation for 14 years. Armed forces across the country have fired a 21-gun salute in his honour. They will fire another cannon shot “every hour until his burial”, the armed forces said. All schools and univ...

NOVANEWS by jodymcintyre Many tears roll from cheeks and seep into Venezuelan soil.  Yesterday afternoon, Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, President since first being elected in 1998 and a man who touched the hearts of many, passed away after a prolonged battle with cancer.  Who knows how he found the strength, almost six months ago now, to tour the country, speaking to crowds of hundreds of thousands on a daily basis, millions in Caracas, and expending every ounce of energy to continue on the path of a national project that has truly transformed people’s lives here.  Politically, Chavez was an international giant, and will be remembered across the continents.  In Latin America, as he strove for the unity proposed by Simon Bolivar before him.  He will be remembered by Muslims for his fear...

NOVANEWS In a raw emotional outpouring, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans walk along side the coffin of President Hugo Chavez    

NOVANEWS Hugo Chávez and the ‘Great Patriotic Pole’ (GPP), the alliance of left parties led by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) - which includes the Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV) who supported and worked for the Chávez campaign - have won a comfortable victory in the Venezuelan Presidential Elections.  The size of the victory, with Chávez a clear 10 percentage points ahead of his nearest opponent, is significant in a country that doesn’t make voting mandatory and yet secured a turnout of over 80% of those eligible to vote.  This shows the importance that ordinary Venezuelans placed on these elections, rightly perceiving that their future could be very different depending on which way the vote went. The main opposition candidate, Henrique Capriles, acknowledged defeat quick...