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Why doesn’t Venezuela Ban Bullfighting?

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Tamara Pearson - Venezuelanalysis.com
Throughout history bullfighting has been an occasion where the most powerful come together. While Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution tries to create a new identity that is independent of Spanish imperialism, and based on socialist humanitarian ideals, bullfighting strangely continues to be a huge money making industry, attracting governmental opportunists and opposition alike. 

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As Poor Countries Walk Out of Climate Talks, Venezuela Calls on Industrial Nations to Take Action

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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interviews Claudia Salerno, the lead climate negotiator for Venezuela at this week's climate talks in Warsaw, Poland.

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Venezuela and the Battle against Transgenic Seeds

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Frederick B. Mills and William Camacaro – Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Over the past two months, efforts to introduce a bill in the Venezuelan National Assembly that could have paved the way for the entrance of transgenic seeds into the country met stiff opposition from the agroecology and ecosocialist movements, stopping Monsanto and other GM firms from getting a foothold in the country.

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Venezuela, Capitalism & Climate Change

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Caleb Maupin- RT Op-Edge
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has just announced its plan to fight climate change. Claudia Salerno, Vice Minister for North America at the Venezuelan Mission to the United Nations, explained her country's proposals fight climate change at a special meeting with the press May 30. She summed up the plan saying: "Venezuela's contribution is to change the system, not the climate."

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State Plans for Prolonged El Niño-Related Drought in Venezuela

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Arlene Eisen - Venezuelanalysis.com
It’s the rainy season in tropical Caracas. The weather service frequently predicts thunderstorms and the air is thick with humidity, yet the menacing clouds rarely produce more than a few drops. Venezuela’s The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources expects half the usual rainfall for the season and is planning accordingly.

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Before You Go (Or Decide Not to Go) to the PreCOP in Venezuela, Consider This

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Adrian Fernandez Jauregui – Earth in Brackets
The issue being raised by many of these European and North American activists is that Venezuela is a major oil producer and that attending such an event would lend tacit support to their fossil fuel extraction.  As a Bolivian, I believe the reality is more complex; this piece is my attempt to add nuance, as well as to call out some of the underlying assumptions of my Northern colleagues and allies in the climate fight.

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Changing the System, Not the Climate: July Social PreCOP in Venezuela

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Nathan Thanki- earth in brackets
Nathan Thanki reports from Margarita Island, Venezuela, on the South American nation's unique approach in the first ever social preCOP on climate change.

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Venezuela: 'People's Solutions' to Climate Crisis Set Out

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Friends of the Earth International, Green Left Weekly
Social movements gathered on Isla Margarita, Venezuela, over July 15-18 to discuss their demands ahead of United Nations climate talks due to take place in Lima, Peru, in December.

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Venezuela’s Indigenous Pemon are Caught in Time on Land Too Valuable for Numbers

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Z.C. Dutka- venezuelanalysis.com
In the shadow of Columbus Day, venezuelanalysis.com writer Z.C. sketches, through interviews, an intimate portrait of a changing people – the Pemon of Venezuela’s mineral-rich Southeastern border. Their testimonies of struggle reflect the country’s changing political landscape and highlights a stark generational gap that afflicts many of Latin America’s first nation peoples.

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"Change the System, Not the Climate!" Voices from the Social PreCOP

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Cory Fischer Hoffman - Venezuelanalysis.com
A warm ocean breeze rolled across the picturesque beach on Venezuela's Caribbean island of Margarita.

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FAO Representative Debunks Myth of Increased Hunger in Venezuela, Highlights Urban Farming Initiatives

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Marcelo Resende & Vanessa Davies – Correo del Orinoco
FAO Representative Marcelo Resende says Venezuela's urban agriculture is playing a key role in improving food sovereignty.

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Guillermo Barreto: “If we don’t guarantee water for the future, then we aren’t socialists”

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Ciudad CCS/ Guillermo Barreto
In this interview with Caracas based newspaper Ciudad CCS, Venezuela’s new Minister of Eco-Socialism, Guillermo Barreto, gives readers an insight into the government’s vision for its environment policy.

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“Venezuela Must Raise the Flags of Campesinos Across the Globe against the Privatisation of Food”

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Manuel Suarez & Rachael Boothroyd Rojas- venezuelanalysis.com
VA's Rachael Boothroyd Rojas talks with activist Manuel Suarez of the Venezuelan collective Homo et Natura about the monumental Anti-Transgenic and Anti-Patent Seed Law currently in debate in the country’s National Assembly.

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Venezuela Passes Law Banning GMOs, by Popular Demand

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William Camacaro - Frederick B. Mills - Christina M. Schiavoni
The National Assembly of Venezuela, in its final session before a neoliberal dominated opposition takes the helm of legislative power on January 5, passed one of the most progressive seed laws in the world on December 23, 2015; it was promptly signed into law by President Nicolas Maduro. On December 29, during his television show, “In Contact with Maduro, number 52,” Maduro said that the new seed law provides the conditions to produce food “under an agro-ecological model that respects the pacha mama

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Questions for the President on Open-Pit Mining

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Lenin Cardozo – Aporrea
In an open letter to President Maduro, the author raises concerns regarding a recent open-pit mining concession by the Venezuelan government to Canadian mining conglomerate Gold Standard, which is likely to have severe ecological repercussions in the South American nation. 

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Venezuela’s Outages and the Western Press’s Confirmation Bias Problem

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Peter Bolton – COHA
Western media deploy double standards in their coverage of water and electricity shortages in Venezuela, blaming the country's leftist government for problems common across the global South. 

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New Commodity Frontiers in Venezuela: Extractivism’s New Leap Forward into the “Web of Life”

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Emiliano Teran Mantovani
The national government is now driving a significant geo-economic reorganization of territories around extractivism, with “Orinoco’s Mining Arch“ and “Orinoco’s Petroleum Belt“ as central projects. The appropriation of the last “virgin” areas of the country paves the way for new “accumulation by dispossession” processes, attempting to address the crisis of governability and accumulation model.

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Venezuela's Orinico Mining Belt: The Economy, Environment and Violence

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Carlos Egaña - Prodavinci
Carlos Egaña explores the political, economic and environmental concerns surrounding Venezuela's controversial Orinoco Mining Belt project.

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Steve Ellner Part II: Is the Bolivarian Revolution a Populist Failure?

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Steve Ellner and Lucas Koerner – Venezuelanalysis.com
Universidad de Oriente Professor Steve Ellner discusses a range of key issues in Venezuela, including the efficacy of state social programs such as the CLAPs, the Maduro government’s controversial Mining Arc, and the role of international solidarity.  

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Greening the Venezuelan Constitution: Proposals from the Grassroots

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Rebecca McMillan
Venezuela's grassroots movements say it's time for a greener constitution, and will demand greater environmental protections during the upcoming National Constituent Assembly.

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