Racism and Racial Divides in Venezuela
An interview with Jesus "Chucho" Garcia, Venezuela's leading activist against and researcher of racism in Venezuela. As a Venezuelan of African descent, he talks about the denial of racism in Venezuela...
View ArticleHugo Chávez and the Politics of Race
While Chávez's strategy of appealing to racial minorities in the U.S. is certainly bold, it is hardly surprising given his and Venezuela's history. Chávez support for Venezuela's indigenous and...
View ArticleHow Chavez Changed Life in the Tribal Territories
Venezuela used to regard its indigenous people contemptuously, but President Hugo Chávez set up a constitution that respects their wishes and their ownership of land. He promised, and has delivered,...
View ArticleWill the Bolivarian Revolution End Coal Mining in Venezuela?
The Wayúu, Yukpa, and Barí indigenous communities who would have been displaced by the coal mining projects in their lands cautiously interpret the Chavez government's suspension of these projects as a...
View ArticleIndigenous Policy in Venezuela: Between Unity and Pluralism
In celebration of the Day of Indigenous Resistance on October 12th, the Venezuelan government announced numerous initiatives aimed at assisting and empowering indigenous communities. While such...
View ArticleRacism Sin Vergüenza in the Venezuelan Counter-Revolution
Racism is one of the main engines and expressions of the current counter-revolution. In Venezuela the revolutionary struggle to end white supremacy and for self-determination is slow, and complicated...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Afro Descendent Front Proposes Program of Action to Confront...
On Saturday, May 10, ignoring the rain, more than 1000 African Descendant Venezuelans flooded the streets to mark the official Day of Afrovenezolanidad (Afro-Venezuelaness). VA.com's Arlene Eisen reports.
View ArticleAfrodescendant Group of Venezuela’s National Institute of Women Make Contact...
Outsiders rarely visit Quebrada Fo Fa, an Afrodescendant community some 30 kilometers of unpaved road away from the main highway between Caracas and the better known coastal towns of Barlovento. On May...
View ArticleAftermath of a Venezuela-Style Lynching
Almost three months have passed since an enraged right-wing mob brutally beat law student William Muñoz (30), then doused him with gasoline. It was a scene horrifically reminiscent of lynchings that...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Indigenous Pemon are Caught in Time on Land Too Valuable for...
In the shadow of Columbus Day, venezuelanalysis.com writer Z.C. sketches, through interviews, an intimate portrait of a changing people – the Pemon of Venezuela’s mineral-rich Southeastern border....
View ArticlePemon Indigenous Occupy Airport in Venezuela: “We Have Had Enough of Broken...
VA.com's Z.C. Dutka gives an eyewitness account of the break out of an indigenous protest in the town of Santa Elena de Uairen in southern Venezuela.
View ArticleSelma in Caracas: Brown-Washing and the Abuse of History
VA.com's Lucas Koerner looks at the Venezuelan opposition's attempt to self-style themselves as an oppressed minority by likening their movement to the struggles faced by black people defying the Jim...
View Article“We Will Defend the Revolutionary Process”: Afro-Venezuelan Youth and...
VA’s Jeanette Charles speaks with one youth organizer about his movement's commitment to continue the revolutionary legacy of the Afro-Venezuelan people.
View ArticleVenezuela's Women's Ministry: Working to Reverse Damage Done by...
Venezuelanalysis put three questions toMaria Eugenia Acero Colomines, National Coordinator for Culture and Gender at the Venezuelan Ministry for Women and Gender Equality on International Women’s Day.
View ArticleVenezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution Embraces its African Roots
Venezuela honors African and Diasporic political, cultural and economic traditions at its one-of-a-kind Center of African, American, and Caribbean Wisdoms.
View Article“Afro-Venezuelans Deserve Reparations that go Beyond the Symbolic”
On the 163rd anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Venezuela, Francisco Tovar, Executive Director of the Institute of African Diaspora Studies (IEA) talks to VA about systemic racism, the...
View ArticleMarronage Meets Bolivarian Socialism: Maroon Comix, A Review
VA's Jeanette Charles reviews Maroon Comix, a book that tells the tales of maroons' fight for freedom and self-determination and their legacy for today's struggles.
View ArticleIndigenous Leaders Call for Justice After Landlord Violence Shakes Communities
The violence, which led to the kidnapping of Yukpa school teacher Mary Fernandez, comes amid land conflicts between cattle ranchers and indigenous communities.
View ArticleAfro-Venezuelan Culture and Resistance: A Conversation with Ines Perez-Wilke
Venezuelanalysis interviews an activist and researcher who has written extensively on issues of black identity and struggle.
View ArticleVenezuela Repels ‘Terrorist’ Attack on Military Bases, 1 Soldier Dead
The assailants stormed several military installations before being engaged by the Venezuelan army.
View ArticleVenezuela Mourns Longtime Chavista Leader Aristóbulo Istúriz
“The professor,” as he was known, held several high-ranking posts in the last 20 years and was a key figure in the Bolivarian Revolution.
View ArticleThe Imprint of an Insurrectional Past: A Conversation with Iraida Vargas and...
Two eminent anthropologists talk about Venezuela’s history and its relation to the present.
View ArticleArgelia Laya: The Afro-Venezuelan Woman that Ignited Grassroots Feminist...
On the 24th anniversary of her death, we look back at Argelia Laya's life and work in Venezuelan popular struggles and her call for women's liberation through socialism.
View ArticleSlavery and Prior Accumulation in Venezuela: A Conversation with Enrique Rivera
The brutal exploitation of life in colonial Venezuela was key in the making of capitalism, but the process also met fierce resistance from enslaved peoples.
View ArticleIndigenous Communities, Present & Future: A Conversation with Dioce Camico
An organizer talks about Indigenous peoples and the Bolivarian Process, the impact of the blockade on their communities, and future prospects.
View ArticleVenezuela: Yukpa People Call for Justice for Detainees Amidst Protests
Indigenous communities from western Venezuela were injured during a crackdown while trying to reach Caracas to sell handicrafts.
View ArticleVenezuela: Army Dismantles Illegal Mining Camps in the Amazon, Gov’t Promises...
Venezuelan Indigenous communities have denounced the alleged involvement of the armed forces in illegal mining.
View ArticleBlack Resistance and Afro-Venezuelan Feminism: A Conversation with Merlyn...
An Afrofeminist activist talks about the country’s history of Black enslavement and about current forms of resistance.
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