Red Pepper's Venezuela Blog

Unregulated Diamond Mining Wreaks Environmental Havoc in Venezuela

[While Chavez's government touts the policy for its enormous oil sector, it has left less lucrative areas like the diamond industry unregulated. The result is smuggling, environmental damage and international concern.]

Green Venezuela

[Derek Wall, Green Party Principal Speaker and author of Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-capitalist, Anti-globalist and Radical Green Movements, argues that capitalism is ecologically unsustainable and that Venezuela’s green policies should be applauded. --Ed]

Venezuela’s Green Agenda: Chavez Should Be Named The “Environmental President”

[Eva Golinger, author of The Chavez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela, argues that even though Venezuela is a nation under the constant aggression and verbal attack of the U.S., it is setting an important example about how government truly can play a protagonist role in stopping global warming and environmental decay. --Ed]

Hugo Chavez’s Achilles Heel: The Environment (Interview with Jorge Hinestroza)

[In the interview below Nikolas Kozloff, author of the recently released Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and The Challenge To The U.S, talks to Jorge Hinestroza, environmentalist and professor of sociology at the University of Zulia, who is critical of the Chavez government’s environmental policy. --Ed]

Misión Arbol: Reforesting Venezuela

Venezuelanalysis.com journalist Michael Fox looks at “Mision Arbol” (Tree Mission), launched by President Hugo Chavez on Sunday June 4th.