Venezuela's Agrarian Land Reform: More like Lincoln than Lenin
Seth DeLong - COHA In the history of land reform, the most accurate analogy to illustrate what is transpiring in Venezuela is not Zimbabwe or Cuba – Chavez officials have repeatedly emphasized that...
View ArticleVenezuela's Peasant Leaders Demand Justice and Protection
Jonah Gindin – Venezuelanalysis.com Since the Venezuelan land reform was passed four years ago an estimated 130 peasant leaders and activists have been assassinated. On Monday, land reform and peasant...
View ArticleLand for People not for Profit in Venezuela
Gregory Wilpert – Venezuelanalysis.com The Venezuelan government under President Hugo Chavez is the only government in Latin America, and perhaps even in the world, that is currently trying to pursue...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Quiet Housing Revolution: Urban Land Reform
Gregory Wilpert – Venezuelanalysis.com Flying below the radar of most Venezuela observers, both pro- and anti-Chavez, Venezuela is undergoing a quiet revolution, in which urban land reform promises to...
View ArticleA Visit to Lord Vestey’s Ranch in Venezuela
Karen Hill I decided I would go to El Charcote, near San Carlos, as I had heard that there was a land dispute between a wealthy English Company and some campesino families who had occupied the land. I...
View ArticleVenezuelan Land and Factory Expropriations as seen from the Labor Ministry...
Federico Fuentes - Green Left Weekly Marcela Maspero of the pro-Chavez union federation UNT and José Gregorio Villarroel of the Labor Ministry explain to Green Left Weekly's Frederico Fuentes how they...
View ArticleMST Representative Visits Venezuela, Sees Country in Transformation
Joao Pedro Stédile - MST I am writing to you from the bolivarian planes in the state of Barinas, in the centre of Venezuela. I am here doing a "recorrido" [tour], as they say, to learn about the...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Urban Land Committees and Participatory Democracy
Alex Holland – Venezuelanalysis.com The Urban Land Committees represent one of Venezuela’s most interesting and significant developments. The success or failure of these Committees could be one of the...
View ArticleFeeding Ourselves: Organic Urban Gardens in Caracas, Venezuela
April M. Howard - Toward Freedom In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Venezuela, Noralí Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of the...
View ArticleVenezuelan Government Announces Offensive Against Paramilitaries
Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter - Green Left Weekly “It is not possible [to accept] the continued massacre of our campesinos ”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez declared on August 6, “The chiefs of...
View ArticleLook out Florida, here they come! Land and food in Venezuela
Patrick Irelan - CounterPunch Last week, the Los Angeles Times gleefully reported that a crowd in Sabaneta, Venezuela, had looted a food warehouse belonging to the state-owned Mercal grocery-store...
View ArticleCo-operatives Turn Idle Landed Venezuelan Estates Green
Humberto Marquez - IPS "As far as you can see, there was not one litre of milk produced, not even an ear of corn," says José Tapia Coirán, turning with his arms outstretched, pointing to the horizon...
View ArticleLand Reform Conflict in Venezuela’s Strategic Water Source
James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government’s land reform programs were attacked last Thursday by armed and masked men who, the farmers...
View ArticleChávez and Morales Take On Sweeping Measures at Land Reform
Adam Kott and David Rosenblum Felson - COHA Latin America’s battalion of left-leaning leaders has been in full voice as they turn to achieve the land reform goals of the Bolivarian Revolution. The...
View ArticleThe Conflict between State-led Revolution and Popular Militancy in Venezuela
Zachary Lown – Venezuelanalysis.com In Merida, Venezuela socialist governing officials clashed last June with families that took over unproductive farm land. This clash illustrates an apparent...
View ArticleThe Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela, Part 1
Anna Isaacs, Basil Weiner, Grace Bell, Courtney Frantz and Katie Bowen One of the goals of the Venezuelan government and its people is a food system that is just and sustainable, that is able to...
View ArticleThe Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela, Part 2
Anna Isaacs, Basil Weiner, Grace Bell, Courtney Frantz and Katie Bowen Through their communal councils, many agricultural villages and towns are organizing to develop transportation infrastructure in...
View ArticleUrban Gardens & Self Revolution
Matthew Higgins The rural life has been all but abandoned throughout the years in Venezuela, replaced by mass importation and consumption. Venezuela’s agricultural innovations have come out of a...
View ArticleMoving Toward Land Reform, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology in Venezuela
Alan Broughton - Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network A massive transformation of agriculture is occurring in Venezuela, a transformation that has lessons for every other country in the world. read...
View ArticleVenezuela: Food Sovereignty Project Launched
Lisa MacDonald - Green Left Weekly In October, Chavez called for the acceleration of the nationalisation of agricultural assets, to put more land and property owned by huge food corporations under...
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