Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network in Sydney

Venezuelan ambassador to Australia, Nelson Davila, speaks about the significance of the events on the 4th of February 1992, when a group of civilians and young army officers, including now Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez Frias, attempted to over throw the government of Carlos Andres Perez. The civic- military rebellion transformed Venezuela’s national political  panorama and is now viewed as one of the key antecedents to the development of the Bolivarian Revolution.

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Correo del Orinoco International Venezuela’s socialist revolution was both highlighted and defended this weekend as the global summit of social, economic, and environmental justice movements known as the World Social Forum (WSF) came to a close. With some 40,000 activists gathered to discuss anti-capitalist alternatives to the world economic crisis, participants stressed the importance of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution and the leadership role played by President Hugo Chavez in proving that “another world is possible”.

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This past Monday Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced that his government would make reforming the country’s penal code a priority in the upcoming year.

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This past Tuesday, the Venezuelan National Assembly passed new legislation reforming the country’s laws on organised crime and terrorism. The legislation widens the number of crimes under its competence and also increases maximum sentences for offenses.

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Rafael Enciso Patiño - workerscontrol.net Based on the analysis of the historic experience of what we call the Soviet mode of production – to differentiate it from the socialist mode of production theoretically formulated by Marx, Engels, and Lenin – we here analyze the experience of Venezuela, its process of recuperation of national sovereignty during the government of President Chávez since 1999 and the road traversed with the construction of the material and cultural bases of socialism since his reelection in December 2006 when the chief of state declared socialism as the path of development and the strategic objective to be obtained.

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A United Nations (UN) official praised Venezuela’s gun control and disarmament efforts as the government proceeds with several policies aimed at countering violent crime and guaranteeing citizen security.

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The reduction of the working day to a maximum of 7 hours, eliminating subcontracted work and increasing maternity leave to a period of 5 months are some of the proposals which have been put forward by thousands of workers across Venezuela in an effort to write the country’s new Labour Law, said President of the Socialist Bolivarian Workers’ Central, Will Rangel on Monday.

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Rachael Boothroyd - Venezuelanalysis.com Even in a regulated economy such as Venezuela, financial traders and the commercial elite, the same bourgeoisie which Carroll continues to cite as a reliable source on all things Venezuelan at the expense of engaging with ordinary citizens, have found a way of speculating and exploiting the economic situation whilst giving the proverbial finger to the majority of Venezuelans and the national government.

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The purpose of the recently formed Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) will be to establish a “new hegemony” within the Bolivarian revolution, said the Vice-president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Francisco Arias Cardenas this past Saturday.

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The National Association of Alternative, Free and Community Media (ANMCLA)

Through a national assembly of spokespersons which took place in March last year, the National Association of Alternative, Free and Community Media (ANMCLA) adopted feminism, sexual and gender diversity, and the anti-patriarchal struggle as a line of action and central nexus of the organisation. From discussions realised after the meeting, an agenda of education and production workshops was planned to generate and disseminate our politics in this area of struggle.

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Reforms to humanise Venezuela’s prison system moved ahead this week with the launch of a program in which inmates work to restore and improve prison facilities, while prison affairs minister Iris Valera reported progress in tackling delays in the judicial processing of prisoners.

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Correo del Orinoco International This week Venezuelan opposition forces demonstrated a false showing of unity against President Hugo Chavez in preparation for next October’s presidential elections.

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On Wednesday, Venezuelans were shocked at the news of Attorney General and revolutionary lawyer Carlos Escarra’s abrupt death after suffering a heart attack earlier that morning.

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The president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) Tibisay Lucena reported on Wednesday that the CNE, which organises and oversees elections in Venezuela, is fully prepared for the upcoming 2012 – 2013 electoral period. “We say to the country that we are ready...all that remains is to put that thorough planning into practise,” she stated.

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The Venezuelan government has announced Venezuela’s “irrevocable” withdrawal from the World Bank affiliated arbitration body the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

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The new Venezuela social network, called Plaxed, which allows streams of short posts (200 characters), as well as event invitations, polls, and questions, was created as an alternative site so that files or personal details found on the network “aren’t blocked, erased, or followed” by U.S laws, said its creator, Cesar Cotiz, a systems engineer student.

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Leopoldo Lopez has withdrawn from the opposition presidential primaries, deferring his support to the current governor of Miranda state, Henrique Capriles Radonski.

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Reinaldo Iturriza López - Saber y Poder One of the principle tasks for the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP), which is still under construction, is the development of what could be called the People’s Programme, which would serve as the fundamental programmatic component for the government and which would be presented by Commander Chavez to the country during the upcoming electoral campaign. 

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Indepabis, the Institute for the Defence of People in the Access to Goods and Services, has published a list online of over 1,000 new regulated prices for medicinal products.

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Communal grain packing company Hijos de Bolivar (Bolivar’s children) in Los Guayos, Carabobo state, inaugurated six months ago, is packaging 16 tonnes of sugar per day as well as beans, and soon rice, which it then sends on to communal councils.

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