The recent UN report caused shockwaves in the international community by setting out a previously unknown number of homicides and deaths committed by the state security forces in 2018.
Tag: Venezuela
Police harassed and detained peasants protesting in the offices of the National Land Institute
On July 16th, FAES agents (police commando forces) and the anti-drug unit of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) arrived to the headquarters of the National Land Institute (INTI) to harass the group of peasants that has been protesting there
Venezuelaโs Electricity Crisis: Imperialist Sabotage or a Crime of the Chavista Bourgeoisie
On the afternoon of 7 March 2019, the electricity supply was cut off in more than 80% of Venezuela. This blackout was the highest point in a decade long electricity crisis, a collapse that industry workers had warned about for years, despite government attempts to completely silence their reports
Open letter by political prisoner Rodney รlvarez
Political prisoner Rodney รlvarez has been arbitrarily jailed eight years without a trial, as a working class hostage of the chavista government
โWorkers in Struggleโ Marched Against Maduroโs Austerity
Over a hundred workers mobilized in downtown Caracas against Maduro governmentโs anti-worker policies.
Family demands justice for Alcedo Mora four years after his disappearance
Moraโs son claims that pressure from paramilitary groups have forced him into exile, where he still demands justice for his disappeared father and the Vergel brothers
Public Declaration of โWorkers in Struggleโ
An alliance of trade unions and political and union currents was recently formed to struggle for workersโ rights, independently the Opposition headed by Guaidรณ. Its objectives are to confront the brutal anti-worker policies of the Maduro Government and to repudiate imperialist interference.
Gasoline scarcity follows the disastrous state of refineries and imperialist sanctions
For Josรฉ Bodas, general secretary of the Unitary Federation of Oil Workers (FUTPV), the scarcity of gasoline is a consequence of the state of disaster of our refineries.
Venezuela: the Struggle is over Territories
While millions migrate out of the country, and the Petro-State falters, a new process of accumulation by dispossession can be seen from the ground. Teran-Mantovani guides us through an exploration of the geographies of extraction and plunder in Venezuela.
Union meeting in Venezuela
More than a hundred union leaders and activists came together at the Central University of Venezuela to launch a new independent workers' front.
Venezuelan Voices 