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Racism and Racial Divides in Venezuela

Gregory Wilpert 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...

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Hugo Chávez and the Politics of Race

Nikolas Kozloff - CounterPunch 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...

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How Chavez Changed Life in the Tribal Territories

Maurice Lemoine - Le Monde Diplomatique Venezuela used to regard its indigenous people contemptuously, but President Hugo Chávez set up a constitution that respects their wishes and their ownership of...

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Will the Bolivarian Revolution End Coal Mining in Venezuela?

James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com The Wayúu, Yukpa, and Barí indigenous communities who would have been displaced by the coal mining projects in their lands cautiously interpret the Chavez...

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Indigenous Policy in Venezuela: Between Unity and Pluralism

James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com In celebration of the Day of Indigenous Resistance on October 12th, the Venezuelan government announced numerous initiatives aimed at assisting and empowering...

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Racism Sin Vergüenza in the Venezuelan Counter-Revolution

Arlene Eisen - Venezuelanalysis.com 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...

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Venezuela’s Afro Descendent Front Proposes Program of Action to Confront...

Arlene Eisen – Venezuelanalysis.com On Saturday, May 10, ignoring the rain, more than 1000 African Descendant Venezuelans flooded the streets to mark the official Day of Afrovenezolanidad...

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Afrodescendant Group of Venezuela’s National Institute of Women Make Contact...

Arlene Eisen – Venezuelanalysis.com 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...

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Aftermath of a Venezuela-Style Lynching

Arlene Eisen 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...

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Venezuela’s Indigenous Pemon are Caught in Time on Land Too Valuable for...

Z.C. Dutka- venezuelanalysis.com 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...

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Pemon Indigenous Occupy Airport in Venezuela: “We Have Had Enough of Broken...

Z.C. Dutka- Venezuelanalysis.com 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. read more

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Selma in Caracas: Brown-Washing and the Abuse of History

Lucas Koerner- venezuelanalysis.com 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...

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Racism and Racial Divides in Venezuela

Gregory Wilpert 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...

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Hugo Chávez and the Politics of Race

Nikolas Kozloff - CounterPunch 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...

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How Chavez Changed Life in the Tribal Territories

Maurice Lemoine - Le Monde Diplomatique Venezuela used to regard its indigenous people contemptuously, but President Hugo Chávez set up a constitution that respects their wishes and their ownership of...

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Will the Bolivarian Revolution End Coal Mining in Venezuela?

James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com The Wayúu, Yukpa, and Barí indigenous communities who would have been displaced by the coal mining projects in their lands cautiously interpret the Chavez...

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Indigenous Policy in Venezuela: Between Unity and Pluralism

James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com In celebration of the Day of Indigenous Resistance on October 12th, the Venezuelan government announced numerous initiatives aimed at assisting and empowering...

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Racism Sin Vergüenza in the Venezuelan Counter-Revolution

Arlene Eisen - Venezuelanalysis.com 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...

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Venezuela’s Afro Descendent Front Proposes Program of Action to Confront...

Arlene Eisen – Venezuelanalysis.com On Saturday, May 10, ignoring the rain, more than 1000 African Descendant Venezuelans flooded the streets to mark the official Day of Afrovenezolanidad...

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Afrodescendant Group of Venezuela’s National Institute of Women Make Contact...

Arlene Eisen – Venezuelanalysis.com 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...

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