The Venezuelan Government is taking concrete steps to combat a rise of criminal activity and insecurity in the country by also addressing the root cause of violence: Poverty The New York Times mistakenly headlined last week that violence in Venezuela is worse than Iraq. The sensationalist and distorted article, authored... » read this article

“We live in paradise. Look, the people are very tranquil, the kids are growing, and we cultivate food without contamination because we know how to produce natural fertilizer from worms. And now, with solar electricity, it’s like a dream,” said the Venezuelan farmer Ramón Dávila with a smile, his solid... » read this article

Introduction Two elections in Latin America this fall will have decisive importance in the direction of economic and foreign policy for the coming decade. Venezuelan legislative elections on September 26 will determine whether President Chavez can secure the two-thirds majority needed to proceed with his democratic socialist agenda without the... » read this article

US urges 'appropriate steps' on Colombia military accord Agence Presse France August 20, 2010 The United States urged Colombia's new government Wednesday to take "appropriate steps" to sustain its relations with Washington after a key bilateral military accord was declared unconstitutional. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said the United States... » read this article

According to the latest survey carried out by opposition pollster Datanalisis, reported in Ultima Noticias and TeleSur concerning the September 26th National Assembly elections in Venezuela, President’s Chavez’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) and its allied Venezuelan Communist Party (PCV) are set to rout the right wing opposition camp for the... » read this article

Forrest Hylton: Is Colombia's new leader stepping back from U.S. plan to isolate Chavez?   Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. In Colombia, the new president, Juan Manuel Santos, has done something that seems quite unexpected: he made peace... » read this article

Introduction US policy toward Venezuela has taken many tactical turns, but the objective has been the same:  to oust President Chavez, reverse the nationalization of big businesses, abolish the mass community and worker based councils and revert the country into a client-state. Washington funded and politically backed a military coup... » read this article

Selling goods to passersby on the street, Jenny Caraballo describes her local communal council. “Some of our members are homemakers who want their community to be pretty,” Caraballo says while trying to make eye contact with potential clients in 23 de Enero, a barrio popular that is one of many... » read this article

If you want to understand what’s behind the recent tension between Colombia and Venezuela, think “smokescreen,” and then go back several months to some sick children in the Department of Meta, just south of Bogota. The children fell ill after drinking from a local stream, a stream contaminated by the... » read this article

Despite President Obama’s promise to President Chavez that his administration wouldn’t interfere in Venezuela’s internal affairs, the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is channeling millions into anti-Chavez groups. Foreign intervention is not only executed through military force. The funding of “civil society” groups and media outlets to promote political... » read this article

By Eric Toussaint , Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt Venezuela. Nationalization, workers’ control: achievements and limitations (PART 1) Debate and contradiction in the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) (Part 2) The Venezuelan economy: in transition towards socialism?  (Part 3) Suggested paths to 21st century socialism in... » read this article

Editor's note: Published earlier in February, 2010 on Axis of Logic with some photos of the Peasant Militia and machinery added. - LMB Caracas, February 22, 2010 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the creation of a new Peasant Militia, which will form part of the national Bolivarian Armed Forces... » read this article

(photos/captions added to this article by Axis of Logic) Another tanker laden with Venezuelan crude oil for Belarus arrived at Ukraine’s Odessa seaport on July 31, a seaport traffic control officer told BelaPAN. The vessel brought a shipment of 77,560 tons of oil and is expected to unload by the... » read this article

Is President Álvaro Uribe trying to prevent his successor from making peace with Venezuela? When Luis Alfonso Hoyos walked into a regional meeting on Thursday, July 22, he would have done well to remember that -- ever since U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented the alleged evidence of weapons... » read this article

Many Axis of Logic readers have probably heard about the guerrillas and paramilitary bands in Colombia. Drug running, murder of civilians and labor leaders, terror of the civilian population and more recently the “parapolitics” scandal are the daily bread in large swathes of Colombia. Members of the Senate and Congress... » read this article

Merida, July 23rd, 2010 – Following Colombian accusations before the Organisation of American States (OAS) yesterday that Venezuela is “protecting” its guerrillas, Chavez announced that Venezuela would break off diplomatic relations with Colombia and withdraw its ambassador. Venezuelan institutions and international social organisations have expressed their support for Venezuela, while... » read this article

Caracas, July 25, 2010 - UPDATE by Eva Golinger: Venezuela will suspend all oil shipments to the US in the event of an attack After Venezuelan President Chavez revealed intelligence data yesterday during a national address indicating the imminence of an aggression against his government via Colombia with support from... » read this article

24 July 2010 Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez broke off diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia Thursday over charges made by that country’s government that Caracas has sheltered Colombian guerrillas on its territory. In a histrionic presentation to the Organization of American States in Washington, DC, Colombia’s ambassador accused the Chavez government... » read this article

Nelson Dávila is not your usual diplomat. He does not come from a comfortable bureaucratic position but rather from the revolutionary struggle, from the struggle of students and teachers and ultimately the process of building the Bolivarian revolution. Even before the start of the revolution he had been under the... » read this article

Fourteen months ago the article "Globovision digging its own grave in Venezuela" was published on Axis of Logic. Now this right wing opposition news channel which made a career out of opposing and lying about the Chavez government has imploded forfeiting a possible 45.8% of its stock to the Venezuelan... » read this article