By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The failed coup in Venezuela last February and US President Obama’s declaration this March that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a “national security threat” to the United States have escaped most Filipinos’ notice. Understandably so, with the entire country preoccupied with the ongoing cover-up of another monumental blunder…
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Venezuela retaliates vs US interventionism
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star “Our struggle today, the historic battle of the Revolution and the Venezuelan people, is to put an end to all forms of modern slavery, a dark and subtle slavery no longer exerted through the whip, the iron and the shackles, but through invisible chains…
Counterrevolution in Venezuela
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld “Make trouble, fail, make trouble again, fail again… till their doom; that is the logic of the imperialists and all reactionaries the world over in dealing with the people’s cause, and they will never go against this logic… Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, fight again… till their victory;…
The Chavez legacy lives on
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Venezuela marks the first death anniversary of its charismatic, outspoken and hugely popular President, Hugo Chavez, in the midst of relatively small but persistent street protests that have turned violent and even deadly, originating from well-to-do municipalities, and led by Opposition figures that unabashedly want to bring down the…
Victory for Venezuela’s Socialists in Crucial Elections
The pro-Chavez United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won 72 percent of the governorships in the November 23, 2008 elections and 58 percent of the popular vote, dumbfounding the predictions of most of the pro-capitalist pollsters and the vast majority of the mass media who favored the opposition. BY JAMES PETRAS INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat…
The Cuban Revolution and Venezuela
By Germán Sánchez AxisofLogic.com Editor’s Note: As U.S. citizens most of us have precious little knowledge or understanding of revolution. Through our educational systems and the corporate media in the U.S. we have received either no information or distortions about historical revolutions. It certainly is not in the interest of the corporate oligarchy to teach…