Sean Penn Reflects on Chávez and Castro
Brett Story & VideoNation : Foreign Leaders & Political Figures
Actor-director Sean Penn debunks the many myths surrounding Cuba's Raúl Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
Brett Story & VideoNation : Foreign Leaders & Political Figures
Actor-director Sean Penn debunks the many myths surrounding Cuba's Raúl Castro and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez.
Sean Penn : Hugo Chavez
The Cuban President talks about Obama, Guantánamo and the Pentagon; the Venezuelan President considers human rights and the next US administration.
Daniel Wilkinson : Non-Fiction
Is Venezuela's president undoing his country's experiment in democracy?
Differing views on the defeat of constitutional reforms championed by President Hugo Chávez from Mark Weisbrot, Sujatha Fernandes, Chesa Boudin, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Greg Grandin.
An honest account of the referendum cuts through neoliberal propaganda and looks at what's really at stake.
The stuggle is not between pro-Chávez and anti-Chávez factions but between left and right.
First and foremost, Venezuelans rejected Chávez's political proposals.
Losing the referendum may be the best outcome for Chávez--and his movement.
The referendum defeat may temporarily revive a flagging opposition, but it does not spell the collapse of the movement Chávez has inspired.
As Venezuela and the rest of Latin America repair the damage of two decades of free-market orthodoxy, John Kenneth Galbraith is a major inspiration.
Joaquín Villalobos : Hugo Chavez
Oil money allows Hugo Chávez to do many things, but it will never be enough to buy a revolution.
Victor Navasky : Media Analysis
Hugo Chávez's critics may mock his ideas of twenty-first-century socialism as empty rhetoric. Perhaps it's more like magical realism--still a fiction, but one to be nourished as a realizable ideal.
Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.
Venezuela's controversial program to provide heating oil to impoverished American communities exposes the inability of the richest nation on earth to meet the needs of its poor.
Daphne Eviatar : South America
Hugo Chávez was re-elected not for his admiration of Castro but for presiding over a robust economy and aggressively improving the lot of Venezuela's poor.
A New York judge, invited to observe the Venezuelan presidential election, discovers a functional democracy, reliable electronic-voting technology and a passionate, engaged electorate.
Although the United States itches to do away with Hugo Chávez, his socialist policies are alleviating poverty and earning the people's trust. To Bush's chagrin, the Venezuelan leader is here to stay.
Michael Blanding : International Organizations
The World Social Forum in Caracas provided living proof of alternative political and social visions, but raised new questions about government co-optation.
The scramble for petroleum by developing countries worldwide is reshaping global geopolitics in favor of oil-rich nations like Iran, Venezuela and Sudan.
Jordana Timerman : George W. Bush
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona led thousands in a massive rebuke of George W. Bush, his trade policies and his neoconservative agenda at the Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata Argentina. Despite some sporadic violence, the protest focused on developing indigenous alternatives to US-led trade initiatives policies.
Gas-guzzling can be a revolutionary experience, like puffing Montecristo cigars, now that Citgo's 1,800 gas stations and eight oil refineries passed into the hands of Venezuela's national oil company.
Naomi Klein : Corporate Media & Consolidation
In the United States, unlike in Venezuela, the media and the government are on the same side.