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Will the Bolivarian Revolution End Coal Mining in Venezuela?

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James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
The Wayúu, Yukpa, and Barí indigenous communities who would have been displaced by the coal mining projects in their lands cautiously interpret the Chavez government's suspension of these projects as a temporary sign of relief. But their struggle against coal mining has lasted a quarter of a century and will not conclude until mining concessions are repealed for good.

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Land Reform Conflict in Venezuela’s Strategic Water Source

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James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
Cooperativist ecological farmers supported by the Venezuelan government’s land reform programs were attacked last Thursday by armed and masked men who, the farmers say, were hired by large estate owners in the area to cut short the changes heralded by the “Bolivarian Revolution” in their rural Andean Mountain valley.

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Venezuelan Environmentalist: "Tomorrow is too late"

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Federico Fuentes - Green Left Weekly
Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network national co-convenor Frederico Fuentes spoke to Heryck Rangel, an environmental activist and leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV), about the challenges that the global environment crisis poses for Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution, and the planet. 

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Venezuelan President’s Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen

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Hugo Chavez
A translation of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s speech on December 16, 2009 at the XV International Conference of the United Nations Organization on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on How to Tackle Climate Change: “We Must Go from Capitalism to Socialism”

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Amy Goodman - Democracy Now!
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez spared no criticism of the climate conference in Copenhagen. Well, shortly after the news conference, I caught up with President Chavez for a few minutes.

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ALBA Declaration on Copenhagen Climate Summit

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ALBA countries
The following is the statement issued by the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) on 18 December in response to the results of the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit.

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Venezuela: Revolution in the Electrical Industry

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Federico Fuentes - Correo del Orinoco International
Workers in the electrical sector are set to embark on nationwide consultation process to elaborate strategic and immediate solutions for the electricity crisis.  Alongside proposals for improving the sector and energy-saving measures, discussions will focus on introducing workers' participation in the management of the state-owned electricity company, Corpoelec.

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The Eco-Socialist Alternative: Capitalist Destruction or New Civilization?

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Gustavo Fernández Colón - Another Green World
The most serious aspect of the crisis facing the global capitalist system is not the bankruptcy of financial corporations, or the global economic downturn, or the discrediting of its institutions of political control. It is the environmental crisis caused by the irrational destruction of nature, to the point of jeopardizing the ability of self-regeneration of the ecosystems on which our survival depends.

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Bolivarian Ecosocialism

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Sam McGill
An interview with Natalie Lazaro Barrios on the Indo-Bolivarian Ecosocialism forum, the Mother Earth Mission, and environmental work in Venezuela post the climate summit in Cochabamba.

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Venezuelan Tree Mission Launches Community-Led Reforestation Campaign

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Juan Reardon – Venezuelanalysis.com
In Venezuela, the Environment Ministry has launched a year-long, nationwide weekend tree-planting campaign through the Misión Arbol, or “Tree Mission”, an integral reforestation and conservation effort that depends largely on grassroots participation.

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Oil in Venezuela: The Lesser of Two Evils

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Anthony W. Persaud
Venezuela´s oil riches have enabled its government to begin building a new society, enabled it to help its neighbours and stand up for itself in the world, demonstrating to the world that many positive outcomes are possible even from a resource with such potential for destruction

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Moving Toward Land Reform, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology in Venezuela

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Alan Broughton - Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network
A massive transformation of agriculture is occurring in Venezuela, a transformation that has lessons for every other country in the world.

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“Sowing Light” Part 1: Bringing Solar Power to Rural Venezuela

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James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com
Suggett visits the isolated rural village of El Quinó, where the government and community have worked together to install solar power, bringing electricity to the town for the first time, along with other social benefits.

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From Agribusiness to Agroecology? An Analysis of Venezuela’s Nationalization of AgroIsleña

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Juan Reardon – Venezuelanalysis.com
With the nationalization of AgroIsleña, the Venezuelan state has taken an important step in the struggle to bring social and economic factors under greater control of the Venezuelan people and out of the hands of private, profit-driven firms. What is yet to be understood is what ecological factors will be considered as the AgroPatria project moves forward.

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Cancún Climate Summit: Time for a New Geopolitical Architecture

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Nikolas Kozloff
As we approach crucial climate change negotiations in Cancún, Mexico, the key question on many people's minds is this: What nation or nations will have the courage to stand up to the United States, which still represents the key obstacle to a binding agreement on global warming?

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Collapse of the Metro or of Civilisation?

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Debate Socialista
The Caracas Metro is no longer adequate enough as transport for the megalopolis. A range of solutions have been suggested. We think the difficulties of the Metro need to be analysed more profoundly. Let’s confront the problems that we face due to the capitalist crisis with audacious measures that get to the heart of the problems.

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People and Government United! - The Lines of Chávez N° 97

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Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
During all of these recent days, it rained in Venezuela like never before...We are at a historical turning point: We must speed up the birth of the socialist city, the city of good living and good life, by giving life to a new sense of territorial planning, which follows closely the preservation of common good and collective welfare.

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Venezuelan Comics Find Their Space on the Web

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Laura Vidal - Global Voices Online
The comic in Venezuela is one of the genres that is generally underrated and ironically, treasured within the country's culture. The artists who associate themselves with the expression of the comic and its way of illustrating ideas quickly and amusingly work more on the net than among publishers.

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Venezuela on the UN Climate Talks

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Claudia Salerno, Democracy now
After one week, the fate of negotiations at the U.N. Climate Change Conference remains uncertain. We speak to Venezuela’s lead climate change negotiator, Claudia Salerno.

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Venezuela: Food Sovereignty Project Launched

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Lisa MacDonald - Green Left Weekly
In October, Chavez called for the acceleration of the nationalisation of agricultural assets, to put more land and property owned by huge food corporations under public control. The land reforms undertaken as part of Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution have reduced hunger and poverty by allowing field hands to own the land they work.

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