Venezuela

Action in South Minneapolis, Minnesota with a coalition formed by different local progresive organizations.

An official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon with “…an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America…” Both the US and Colombian governments have publicly stated that the military agreement refers only to counternarcotics and counterterrorism operations within Colombian territory.

Por: Franz J. T. Lee - En el tercer milenio la conquista beligerante a nivel global de la “Humania del Sur”, especialmente del Caribe, Centroamérica y América del Sur, por parte de los Estados Unidos de América, está en pleno apogeo. Sin embargo, en el escenario histórico mundial, en vísperas de un posible colapso del sistema capitalista, está haciendo estragos una inexorable guerra pírrica que amenaza con devorar a las propias superpotencias. Oscar Wilde, en consonancia política con Rosa Luxemburgo, ha descrito de manera muy conmovedora la quintaesencia de la “Revolución Americana” y sus consecuencias nefastas:

Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, said Sunday that if the USA attacked Venezuela militarily through Colombia, it would initiate a “100-year-long war”, which would spread throughout the region.

El presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, advirtió que si Estados Unidos (EEUU) ataca militarmente a Venezuela a través de Colombia se iniciaría la “guerra de los 100 años”, que se extendería por toda la región.

The last time I had the opportunity to speak in Caracas—at long-distance that time—was about a year ago, right after the UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) meeting in Santiago in September 2008. That meeting was called with the purpose of considering the situation in the Republic of Bolivia, after an uprising backed by the traditional elites who had lost power in the impressive democratic elections of 2005.

Las bases militares en Colombia son una reacción imperial a los cambios que se están produciendo en América Latina, sostuvo el ministro del Poder Popular para la Economía y Finanzas de Venezuela, Alí Rodríguez Araque, en artículo difundido por la revista Cuba Debate en su edición digital.

 On Thursday, Venezuela announced the expansion of military operations along its western border in order to fight drug trafficking and protect a recently discovered reserve of coltan from illegal mining. In what is titled Operation Blue Gold, 15,000 Air Force, Army, and Navy personnel will protect the coltan reserve, which straddles the states of Bolivar and Amazonas. 

Since Chavez came to presidency, Venezuela’s economy has grown to fulfil the increasing demand for human dignity. More people are able to access the country’s economic wealth and, at the same time, Venezuela has opened its markets to China and other significant manufacturing leaders. Today, more poor people are able to buy very cheap Chinese fans, refrigerators and TV sets as the least material possessions that many treasure in land where it is hotter each year, and where public runs until 10-11pm.

On Wednesday, the Venezuelan government announced a series of new measures to reduce the consumption and increase the production of electricity, which has been rationed over the past two months through daily, one to two-hour rolling poweroutages in much of the country.