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...
View ArticleVenezuela’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...
View ArticlePemon 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
View ArticleSelma 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...
View Article“We Will Defend the Revolutionary Process”: Afro-Venezuelan Youth and Today's...
JEANETTE CHARLES AND ÁNGEL GÓNZALEZ – Venezuelanalysis.com VA’s Jeanette Charles speaks with one youth organizer about his movement's commitment to continue the revolutionary legacy of the...
View ArticleVenezuela's Women's Ministry: Working to Reverse Damage Done by Capitalist...
Maria Eugenia Acero & Rachael Boothroyd-Rojas – Venezuelanalysis.com Venezuelanalysis put three questions to Maria Eugenia Acero Colomines, National Coordinator for Culture and Gender at the...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution Embraces its African Roots
Jeanette Charles – Venezuelanalysis.com Venezuela honors African and Diasporic political, cultural and economic traditions at its one-of-a-kind Center of African, American, and Caribbean Wisdoms. read...
View Article“Afro-Venezuelans Deserve Reparations that go Beyond the Symbolic”
Rachael Boothroyd Rojas & Francisco Tovar On the 163rd anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Venezuela, Francisco Tovar, Executive Director of the Institute of African Diaspora Studies (IEA)...
View ArticleRacism 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...
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