Red Pepper's Venezuela Blog

Venezuela and Europe: Towards a Different Kind of Politics

[Venezuelanalysis.com's Liza Figueroa-Clark and Pablo Navarrete interview Rodrigo Chaves, Venezuela's former Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs for Europe, during a June visit by Chaves to Europe.]
Former Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs for Europe, Rodrigo Chaves

Interview - Trade Unions and Socialism in Venezuela

[The following interview was conducted with Orlando Chirino, national organiser of Venezuela’s National Workers’ Union (UNT) federation and leader of C-CURA (the United Autonomous Revolutionary Class Current) within the UNT. --Ed]

Trailer: The War on Democracy by John Pilger

[Below is a trailer for John Pilger's new film The War on Democracy. Set in Latin America and the US, The War on Democracy explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. The film will be released in UK cinemas on Friday June 15th (For a list of cinemas and screening times in London click here; click here for a list of all the cinemas showing The War on Democracy in the UK). To read an interview with Pilger about the film by Venezuelanalysis.com click here. For a Spanish version of the interview click here. --Ed]

Interview with John Pilger: The U.S.’ War on Democracy

[Below is an interview by Venezuelanalysis.com with John Pilger about his new film The War on Democracy. Set in Latin America and the US, The War on Democracy explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. The film will be released in UK cinemas on Friday 15th June. There will be a special preview in London on Friday 11th May. For a Spanish version of the article click here. John Pilger will be talking about The War on Democracy and the issues it raises in a BBC World Service phone-in on Wednesday 9th May from 6-7pm. For more info about the film visit: www.johnpilger.com or www.warondemocracy.net. --Ed]

Journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker John Pilger shakes hands with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.

Hugo Chavez's Future (An Interview with Greg Wilpert)

[Recently, Nikolas Kozloff, who is working on a new book entitled South America´s New Direction, about the political realignment in South America  spoke with Greg Wilpert, editor of venezuelanalysis.com and a freelance journalist.  Wilpert is the author of Changing Venezuela By Taking Power, forthcoming from Verso Books later this year.  During the one hour interview the two discussed Venezuelan media, the role of the internet, U.S.-Venezuelan relations, socialist education, and obstacles for the Bolivarian process as it moves ahead. --Ed]

Venezuela: The Struggle after the Vote

[Michael Lebowitz, a director at the Centro Internacional Miranda (CIM), a Caracas-based foundation for analysis and discussion of Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution, talks to Socialist Review about the nature of the "Bolivarian Revolution". The interview was conducted before Chavez won last Sunday's presidential elections. --Ed]

Interview with Eva Golinger: Washington's "Three Fronts of Attack" on Venezuela

[Green Left Weekly's Jim McIlroy & Coral Wynter interview Venezuelan-US lawyer and author of The Chavez Code, Eva Golinger, about the nature of US intervention in Venezuela. --Ed]
The cover of Eva Golinger's new book, Bush vs. Chavez: Washington’s War Against Venezuela.

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]

Chavez Speaks on the Revolution’s Challenges

[The following article by Stuart Munckton for Green Left Weekly summarises some of the points made by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in a recent interview with the Venezuelan newspaper Diario Panorama. In the interview Chavez spoke about some of the challenges facing the Bolivarian revolution, as the process of social transformation his government is leading is called. Click here to read excerpts from the original interview in Spanish. --Ed]

“Chavez Embodies a Revolution, Not Simply a Change of Government” (Interview with Richard Gott)

[Below is an English translation of an interview with British journalist Richard Gott which first appeared in Spanish on the Rebelion website. Gott's book, Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, has just been published in Spanish by Ediciones Foca. To read the original Spanish version of the interview click here. --Ed]

The cover of the Spanish version of Richard's Gott's book, Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, recently published in Spanish by Ediciones Foca.