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::: January 2008 News and Views Roundup - Red Pepper Venezuela
Blog :::
News:
> January 29, 2008
[Venezuelanalysis.com's
Kiraz Janicke reports on the 6th Summit of the Bolivarian
Alternative for Latin America (ALBA), held last week in Venezuela. The summit
concluded with the founding of a new Bank of ALBA and the signing of a series of
economic and social agreements between the member nations. Dominica also became
the latest country to join the regional fair trade bloc.]
> January 24, 2008
[Venezuelanalysis.com's
Michael Fox reports an unprecedented 2-day long grassroots assembly held last
weekend in the Southern Caracas barrio of El Valle. At the assembly hundreds of
representatives of Venezuela's grassroots social movements hashed out plans for
the formation of the Revolutionary Grassroots Front of the South - a new united
movement through which they hope to combat the growing bureaucracy within the
Chavez government, and to push their own grassroots agenda.]
> January 11, 2008
[Venezuelanalysis.com's Kiraz Janicke reports on
yesterday's announcement by Venezuelan President Chavez that two hostages held
by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have been successfully
liberated in a Venezuelan led humanitarian mission. To see an Al Jazeera
International report on this news click here.]
VIEWS:
> January 31, 2008
[Znet's Justin Podur on the context of the recent release of the Colombian
FARC hostages Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez and what Chavez was, and is,
probably trying to achieve with his involvement in the negotiations.]
> January 31, 2008
[Letting the
grassroots lead is the only way forward from referendum defeat, says Reinaldo
Iturriza Lopez. For a Spanish version of this article click here. This article is one of two included in the
February/March 2008 issue of Red Pepper magazine that analyses the prospects
for the Bolivarian process following the narrow defeat of President Hugo
Chávez’s constitutional reform proposals in December’s referendum.]
> January 27,
2008
[Writing in the New Statesman, Venezuela-based economic advisor and
analyst, Stephanie Blankenburg, argues that unless pro-Chávez candidates win the
regional and municipal elections scheduled for November 2008, Venezuela might
well have a new president before the year is out.]
> January 16,
2008
[An introduction to a special on the state of the right in Latin America in
the latest issue of NACLA argues that like in Bolivia and Ecuador, the
marginalised right in Venezuela has had to concentrate its efforts largely
outside of the electoral arena: mass demonstrations, propaganda campaigns, and
the like.]
> January 15,
2008
[For venezuelanalysis.com editor
Gregory Wilpert, with the surprising loss of the constitutional reform
referendum in December, Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution reached a turning
point.]
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