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The crisis in Venezuela





 

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Reports from the struggle
The attack on Chávez
Background to the crisis

LATEST NEWS AND ANALYSIS

The debate sharpens in Venezuela
The discussion of Venezuela's future is heating up--including a clash between the left and right wings of the "revolutionary process" itself.

New chapter in a dirty war
The heat has gone out of Colombia's confrontation with Ecuador and Venezuela, but the U.S. remains determined to destabilize Hugo Chávez.

REPORTS FROM THE STRUGGLE

What's really happening in Venezuela?
An eyewitness report from Venezuela on political developments and conflicts as a national vote approaches on Hugo Chávez's constitutional reforms.

The workers' movement debates the way forward
What's next in Venezuela?
Venezuela's new independent trade union, the National Workers' Union, split at its second congress in late May, amid crucial debates about the way forward for the workers' movement.

World Social Forum comes to a crossroads
More than 100,000 activists are expected to converge on Caracas in Venezuela January 24-29 for the fifth edition of the World Social Forum.

Workers manage idle factories themselves
The debate about factory takeovers
Representatives from 21 unions and 235 worker-occupied factories gathered in Venezuela to strategize about how to advance factory takeovers across the region.

At the World Youth Festival in Caracas
A show of solidarity with Venezuela
This year's World Youth Festival was a massive display of solidarity with the people of Venezuela and their struggle against U.S. imperialism.

Call for a mass workers' party
Venezuela's left comes together
More than 400 people met in Caracas to issue a public call for the formation of a mass workers party that can fight for the socialist revolution in Venezuela.

As Chávez raises a discussion of socialism...
What's next in Venezuela?
Venezuela is swinging to the left amid a surge of activism by workers, as President Hugo Chávez raises the question of a socialist alternative.

THE ATTACK ON CHAVEZ

Why were Chavez's reforms defeated?
The defeat of proposed constitutional reforms in Venezuela is a victory for the conservative opposition--and will open a period of crisis in the camp of Hugo Chávez.

What does Chávez have in store for Venezuela?
A series of constitutional changes proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez seeks to squeeze the wealthy oligarchy--while strengthening the authority of the presidency.

Poised for a landslide reelection victory
Chávez and the future of Venezuela
No matter how convincing a victory that Hugo Chávez achieves in his reelection, the U.S. will be sure to dismiss the results of the December 3 vote as tainted.

The face of a new threat to Venezuela?
I am a U.S. citizen living in Venezuela, reporting on what appears to be the face of U.S.-backed efforts to destabilize the democratically elected Venezuelan government.

Venezuela's Hugo Chávez moves up Washington's hit list
Defying the superpower
The U.S. is trying to tighten its grip on Latin America--and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is the biggest obstacle to Washington's agenda.

Chávez triumphs over U.S.-backed opposition
Venezuela defeats the coupmakers
The big victory of Hugo Chávez in the presidential recall vote has once again frustrated the country's opposition and its backers in Washington. But where is Venezuela headed now?

Who's behind Venezuela's anti-democratic opposition?
In a world turned upside down, Venezuela has experienced an odd type of "general strike" since December 2. It isn't led by workers demanding higher wages, health benefits or political advances. The strike is a lockout led by bosses.

Right wing mobilizes bosses' strike
Can Chávez hold on to power?
Opponents of Venezuela's populist President Hugo Chávez staged their fourth strike of the year in an effort to overthrow him as Socialist Worker went to press.

James Petras on how the U.S. tried to topple Hugo Chávez
"The coup was directed by the White House"
Evidence is piling up of the Bush administration's role in last month's coup attempt against Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez. Author James Petras talks to SW about the U.S. role in the coup--and why it failed.

Bid for power defeated by mass protests
The coup that failed in Venezuela
A mobilization by Venezuela's poor defeated a U.S.-backed coup and returned populist leader Hugo Chávez Frias to power.

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BACKGROUND TO THE CRISIS

Tariq Ali and Anthony Arnove on...
The challenge to the empire
Two left-wing authors answer SW's questions about the development of a challenge to the U.S. empire--most directly with Hugo Chávez, but evident in every corner of the globe.

Report from the anti-FTAA protest
Defying the police state in Miami
"Welcome to the police state of Miami." That's Florida AFL-CIO President Cynthia Hall's greeting to thousands of union members arriving for a protest against the FTAA.

Eyewitness report from Porto Alegre
Building the fight for another world
Some 100,000 people participated in the third World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as part of the movement to build an alternative to a world dominated by economic crisis and war.

Latin America suffers the consequences of "neoliberalism"
Pushed to the edge by the IMF
U.S.-backed free-market policies have caused economic crisis to spread from one end of Latin America to the other.

The misery of the free market
Economic crisis and mass protests are spreading like wildfire across South America--from the continent's biggest power, Brazil, to smaller countries like Peru and Uruguay.

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