Venezuela – the real significance of the student protests
The growing use of social media in political protests is an exciting new democratic tool, isn’t it? Not always, warns Venezuela expert Dr Julia Buxton, looking at the alarming ways in which it is being used in Venezuela today.
VENEZUELA: LUSBI PORTILLO, YUKPA PEOPLE, SIERRA DE PERIJA
Latin America is rightly famous for the vibrancy of its social movements. In a special series for LAB, Silvia Rothlisberger is profiling the leaders of some of these movements. Her first blog is on Lusbi Portillo, from the Yukpa people, in Venezuela.
Ojos Ilegales RED – Francisco Elías Prada – Angela Rodriguez Torres
Francisco Elías Prada y Ángela Rodríguez Torres luchamos como aliados de los pueblos indígenas y otras minorias para visibilizar, difundir, amplificar sus voces y sus luchas a nivel nacional e internacional en búsqueda del respeto a sus derechos humanos, el respeto a sus territorios y a sus culturas.
Venezuela – people’s power
George Ciccariello-Maher, author of We Created Chavez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution, talks about the historical struggle, the current role of militias, and much else
CHAVEZ IS DEAD, THE MEDIA ARE ALIVE AND KICKING
Media reporting of the Venezuelan President was deeply biased while he lived, and remains so now.
Seven Heavens: the live cult of Queen María Lionza
A short video by OjosIlegales, Venezuela, shows the cult of Queen María Lionza, growing in popularity in Venezuela, which unified indigenous, black African and white European peoples in defence of nature, love, peace and harmony
Brazil post-elections: the quid pro quo
Only four days after Jair Bolsonaro's election, federal judge Sergio Moro, Lula’s nemesis, hurried to Rio to accept the president elect’s invitation to become...
Brazil to build power line across indigenous land
The Brazilian state of Roraima is currently dependent for 70 percent of its power on Venezuela’s Guri hydroelectric dam. But socioeconomic chaos...
What the Empire Didn’t Hear: US Spying and Resistance in Latin...
Ben Dangl, editor of UpsideDownWorld.org, explores why today Latin America is no longer scared of U.S. imperialism.
On the Venezuelan border: all the arms of the press
This article was first published in Revista Opera. You can read the original, in Portuguese, here.
October 23, 2017: The day begins at 8...