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::: December 2007 News and Views Roundup from Venezuela Bolivarian Process :::
> December 07, 2007
Pro-Chavez
Leaders Examine Reasons for Venezuelan Referendum Loss
[Venezuelanalysis.com's Chris Carlson reports on how in the aftermath of
Sunday's constitutional reform referendum defeat, various pro-Chavez leaders
have called for an examination of the reasons for their failure to get the
reform approved.]
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/constitutional_reform_2007/index.html
> December 04, 2007
Chavez:
Defeat in Venezuelan Constitutional Reform is “For Now”
[Venezuelanalysis.com editor Gregory Wilpert reports on the speech given by
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez following the defeat of his proposal to reform
the country's 1999 Constitution.]
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/constitutional_reform_2007/index.html
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> December 27, 2007
A
Debate on Hugo Chavez and Venezuela’s Failed Constitutional Reform
[Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was handed his first electoral loss since winning the presidency seven years ago when he narrowly lost a controversial referendum on 69 proposed changes to the constitution earlier this month. Below a debate hosted recently by Democracy Now between Greg Wilpert, author of 'Changing Venezuela by Taking Power', and Francisco Rodriguez, the former chief economist of the Venezuelan National Assembly.]
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/2007/12/a-debate-on-hug.html
> December 17, 2007
What
Does the 'No' Vote Mean?
[The Nation recently asked five U.S. analysts for their views on the defeat of constitutional reforms championed by
President Hugo Chávez. In the article below, one of the contributors, assistant
professor of sociology at Queens College, City University of New York, Sujatha
Fernandes, argues that the referendum defeat provides an opportunity to
reorient the course of the revolution away from determining how to keep Chávez
in power indefinitely and proposing reforms from above, and toward promoting
alternative and local sources of leadership and facilitating a plural public
debate about the future of socialism.]
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/constitutional_reform_2007/index.html
> December 15, 2007
Venezuela:
Democracy Diary
[Red Pepper editor Hilary Wainwright recently visited Venezuela as an international observer of the democracy of the election process and found
it in many ways more democratic than in the UK. Wainwright also ended up
observing the internal democracy of the Chavista movement itself and found at
its grassroots an inspiring commitment to pluralism, critical debate, and
popular autonomy from which we also have much to learn. For a Spanish version
of this article click here.]
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/2007/12/venezuela-democ.html
> December 12, 2007
The
Listening Post- Venezuelan referendum- 07 Dec 07- Part 1
[Aljazeera's The Listening Post asks what effect Venezuela's
recent Constitutional referendum will have on the western media's
confrontational relationship with Hugo Chavez.]
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/constitutional_reform_2007/index.html
> December 11, 2007
Why
did Abstention Win?
[For Venezuelan sociologist Javier Biardeau the scenery of a political
defeat with a high abstention rate, even if it had resulted in a pyrrhic
election victory, places the strategic leadership of the revolution in the only
rational and emotional space necessary to overcome the current situation: to
recognise mistakes and correct them, starting with the one sided view of the
infallibility of the leader. Click here to read the
original Spanish version of this article.]
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/2007/12/why-did-abstent.html#more
> December 07, 2007
The
Economic Policy of the Latin American Left in Government: Venezuela
[In a briefing for the Transnational Institute (TNI) Edgardo Lander and
Pablo Navarrete argue that Venezuela has undergone profound political and social changes
since Hugo Chávez assumed the presidency in February 1999, which have been
reflected in a fundamental shift in the country's economic policy.]
http://redpepper.blogs.com/venezuela/2007/12/the-economic-po.html
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