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The community revolution by Pablo Navarrete, Steve Ellner (January 2010)

While international debate focuses on President Chávez, institutions of popular democracy are taking root in Venezuela’s barrios. Pablo Navarrete introduces the importance of community councils, while Steve Ellner assesses their prospects for deepening the ‘Bolivarian revolution’

Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela by Derek Wall (August 2009)

Derek Wall reviews Pablo Navarrete’s new documentary

Por ahora no pudimos by Pablo Navarrete (January 2008)

The defeat of President Hugo Chávez’s constitutional reform proposals in December’s referendum has triggered a wide debate on the Venezuelan left about the next steps in the country’s Bolivarian revolution. Here, two articles by critical chavistas are introduced by Red Pepper’s Latin America editor Pablo Navarrete

Why did abstention win? by Javier Biardeau (January 2008)

The Jacobin vision of revolutions directed from above by vanguards and singular personalities has to be done away with, says Javier Biardeau. The abstainers in the Venezuelan referendum were taking a clear-cut stand against reform proposals that had not involved them

Grass-roots Chávismo awakes by Reinaldo Iturriza López (January 2008)

Letting the grassroots lead is the only way forward from the referendum defeat, says Reinaldo Iturriza López

Democracy diary by Hilary Wainwright (December 2007)

Hilary Wainwright reports from Caracas on Venezuela’s referendum – and the next steps towards reform

Chile or Venezuela - Which is the Good Democracy? by Rodrigo Acuña (June 2007)

Outsiders who are looking for democracy in Latin America, and in particular, interesting experiments in its expansion, may choose to visit Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina. In Chile, thus far, you will find a President who calls herself a socialist, twinkles at the edges of the system with some reforms, but not much else. Rodrigo Acuña reports

Doing the US’s bidding by Philip Agee (July 2006)

Ex-CIA man Philip Agee sees many parallels between what the US is doing in Venezuela today and its successful efforts to undermine the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s

Venezuela’s new model army by Hilary Wainwright (April 2006)

It was all very mysterious; but indicative of the seemingly random way things can happen in Venezuela. I had only a few days left in Caracas after the 2006 World Social Forum.

Chavez sweeps to victory in Venezuela’s referendum by Dave Raby (September 2004)

The referendum victory takes the Venezuelan revolution to a new stage, writes David Raby

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