Venezuela

Chávez for Life?

Chesa Boudin : Hugo Chavez

There are at least three reasons why the world should congratulate Venezuela's Hugo Chávez on his recent success abolishing term limits.

A New Turn in Latin America?

GRIT TV : Hugo Chavez

Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is willing to engage in direct talks with President Obama. How will this effect US policy in the region?

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.

Conversations With Chávez and Castro

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.

Chávez's Fix

Daniel Wilkinson : Non-Fiction

Is Venezuela's president undoing his country's experiment in democracy?

Forum on Venezuela

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.

Chavismo and Democracy

Greg Grandin

An honest account of the referendum cuts through neoliberal propaganda and looks at what's really at stake.

Progressive Change in Venezuela

Mark Weisbrot

The stuggle is not between pro-Chávez and anti-Chávez factions but between left and right.

Behind the Student Movement's Victory

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

First and foremost, Venezuelans rejected Chávez's political proposals.

A Silver Lining for the Bolivarian Revolution

Chesa Boudin

Losing the referendum may be the best outcome for Chávez--and his movement.

What Does the 'No' Vote Mean?

Sujatha Fernandes

The referendum defeat may temporarily revive a flagging opposition, but it does not spell the collapse of the movement Chávez has inspired.

Chávez: 'Galbraithiano'

Greg Grandin : Economics

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.

Revolution in Venezuela?

Joaquín Villalobos : Hugo Chavez

Oil money allows Hugo Chávez to do many things, but it will never be enough to buy a revolution.

Mission to Caracas

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.

Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy

Liza Featherstone : Oil

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.

Chávez's Citizen Diplomacy

Liza Featherstone : Oil

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.

Latin Left Turn

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.