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[useless-venezuelafacts]

PSA

venezuelanalysis is NOT a reputable source on the crisis in Venezuela. It is communist propaganda. Your opinion has 0 merit if all your sources are from venezuelanalysis.

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Venezuelanalysis: Official Statement on Facebook's Removal of Our Page

Facebook appears to be targeting independent or leftwing sites in the wake of Russiagate.

[benjaknows]

“The most important thing about this achievement is the willingness that Gen. Rodriguez has shown to learn about and respect the mechanisms of participation and decision-making that we workers have gained as part of worker control,” argued Hector Mieres, a factory worker and member of the Socialist Workers’ Council at Diana Industries.

Further, the bank accounts of Diana workers have now been unfrozen, signaling the de-escalation of harassment of Diana workers by the Food Ministry.

“With this decision [to dismiss Mendoza] it’s been demonstrated that through the mobilisation and struggle of the workers, victories can be won against mistreatment, maneuvers and lies,” declared Mieres.

“This opens the path to continue advancing in gains for the workers, deepening worker control with more democracy and participation for our class, and to continue the legacy of our comandante [Hugo Chavez],” the Socialist Workers’ Council member added. 

[benjaknows]

When Diana was nationalised, President Hugo Chavez said it should be run by the workers. “It’s not about state capitalism, you all have a vital role to play in terms of worker control, worker self management, socialist worker co-management of companies, it shouldn’t belong to the state, but rather to the people, managed by the workers, not the state. Workers ... who have to be accountable to the people. Worker control is worker control,” he said to the Diana workers.

Diana workers’ spokesperson Ramos stated that if there had been consultation regarding the new management, there wouldn’t be a conflict now.

“We would have begun a dialogue with minister Osorio... he would have made his proposals, we would have made ours, and we would have arrived at an agreement, as the revolutionaries that we are. But a person who has never been to the company, has never visited us, never seen how we work, how our worker control works – that its very successful and is an achievement of the revolution at a national level - ...he comes and imposes someone like that, ignoring the revolutionary process of the last 14 years to organise the people in order to transfer power,” he said.

“The proposal is that the new management comes out of the ranks of the workers [of Diana]. We can send ten names to the minister, and he picks one of them for example, and the [worker] assembly will decide those ten names,” Ramos told Alba Ciudad radio.

“Everyone knows our achievements, our production increase, our creation of new production lines, our expansion of the refinery, our new products. We’ve even been pioneers in the creation of freeware,” Meneses said. Diana uses open source software for its administration.

In a statement from the Diana socialist worker council published on Monday, the workers wrote that “It’s been over five years now that Diana has been under responsible worker control...and almost a month without the presence of management authorities, a situation which hasn’t at all affected productivity and efficiency, showing concretely the effectiveness of the participation of workers in the running of a company”.

On 28 July, Hugo Chavez’s birthday, Diana workers, “as a present for Comandante Chavez”, worked overtime, and beat their production record, Venezuelan journalist Karen Mendez reported.

[benjaknows]

Mérida, 16th July 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Yesterday members of the Venezuelan national government inaugurated another chocolate factory, part of a push to increase local production of a product which for centuries was Venezuela’s main export, but was always processed and consumed overseas.

The new Cimarron plant in Los Teques, Miranda state will be able to produce 600 kilos of chocolate daily.

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Cimarron and Oderi are the two state chocolate companies. In 2010 the Socialist Corporation of Venezuela was created as part of the government’s aim to promote and increase chocolate production. It supervises and coordinates the state’s activities in the chocolate sector and develops policies to improve the quality of life of producers.

Oderi and Cacoa Venezuela currently have eight chocolate shops in the country, with the aim to set up several more this year. The shops sell hot and cold chocolate drinks, chocolate powder, chocolate blocks, chocolate liquor, cakes, deserts, and natural yogurt from the state owned Lacteos Los Andes, all at below market prices.

[thomassobien]

I'm glad you're handling the anti-Maduro crowd very well. Nice to see another fellow American seeing through the lies set forth by the U.S. mainstream media. Also, I've known a few Venezuelans personally who supported Chavez and currently support Maduro (especially on tumblr). Are you familiar with the site, Venezuelanalysis?

Thanks!! Yes, I definitely know about Venezuelanalysis. It’s a great resource.

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A detailed chronology and analysis of the events leading up to and during the brief 2002 coup d'etat in Venezuela.

By GREGORY WILPERT – VENEZUELANALYSIS.COM, April 14th 2012

The April 2002 coup attempt against President Chavez represented the perhaps most important turning point of the Chavez Presidency. First, it showed just how far the opposition was willing to go to get rid of the country’s democratically elected president. Up until that point the opposition could claim that it was merely fighting Chavez with the political tools provided by liberal democracy. Afterwards, the mask was gone and Chavez and his supporters felt that their revolution was facing greater threats than they had previously imagined. A corollary of this first consequence was thus that the coup woke up Chavez’s supporters to the need to actively defend their government.

Second, the coup showed just popular Chavez really was and how determined his supporters were to prevent his overthrow. They went onto the streets, at great personal risk (over 60 people were killed and hundreds were wounded by the police in the demonstrations that inspired the military to bring Chavez back to power), to demand their president’s return to office.

Third, the coup woke up progressives around the world to what was happening in Venezuela. It forced them to examine why a supposedly unpopular and authoritarian government would be brought back to power with the support of the county’s poor. As such, the coup shone a spotlight on what was happening in Venezuela and eventually rallied progressives around the world to support the Bolivarian (and now socialist) project.

Fourth, and perhaps most importantly for the future evolution of the Venezuelan conflict, the coup was the third nail in the political coffin of the country’s old elite. The first such nail was Chavez’s election in 1998, which brought an explicitly anti-establishment figure into Venezuela’s presidency for the first time in forty years. The second nail was the passage of the 1999 constitution and Chavez’s confirmation as President, in 2000, which democratically swept the country’s old elite almost completely out of political power, such as the governorships, the Supreme Court, and the National Assembly. With the third nail, the failure of the 2002 coup, the opposition lost a base of power in the military and a significant amount of good will in the international community. The next three nails, the failed 2002-2003 oil industry shutdown, the August 2004 recall referendum, and the December 2006 presidential election, only further solidified the old elite’s demise as a political force in Venezuela.

Each of these victories against the opposition heightened consciousness in Venezuela about the need to take the Bolivarian revolution further and thus also allowed Chavez to further radicalize his political program. The coup attempt represented a crucial moment in this process because it was the most dramatic expression of the Venezuelan conflict between a charismatic President and a mobilized poor population on the one hand and the country’s old elite and their supporters on the other.

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[agavebuzz]

In its Seventh Year, CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program Helps 400,000 US Citizens

By Embassy of Venezuela to the United States

Camden, N.J., Dec. 13, 2011

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/6712

Families struggling to pay for home heating oil can call Citizens Energy at 1-877-JOE-4-OIL (1-877-563-4645) to see if they are eligible for heating oil assistance. If approved, the household will receive an authorization letter and details on how to arrange for a one-time delivery of 100 free gallons of oil.