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

Update 2: Due to the extremely high degree of interest and numerous comments generated by this event, we interviewed authorities today and took them the questions YOU posted in our forums. (Posted below the video) Update 1: The number of dead fish and other water-dependent wildlife has increased to about... » read this article

A campaign poster in Brasilia shows how strongly Dilma Rousseff is linking her campaign with the legacy of Pres. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Photo: Maria Elena Romero/Al Jazeera. Brazil is leaning heavily towards electing the country's first female president. Dilma Rousseff has never been elected to public office, but the... » read this article

26th August 2010 - Ecuadorian Luis Fredy Lala told authorities he was the only person to escape alive when gunmen massacred the 58 men and 14 women at a rural ranch just 100 miles from the U.S. border. In an interview from his hospital bed, Lala said he was among... » read this article

Editor's Note: There is much more to be learned about the ;paramilitary death squads in Colombia and the underlying motives for murdering ;tens of thousands of Colombian peasant farmers during the 1990s and the first decade of 2000. Throughout this period, Alvaro Uribe was involved, first as mayor of Medellín... » 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

A Colombian court has declared as unconstitutional a deal which gives US troops access to its military bases. The constitutional court ruled the 2009 accord should be redrafted as an international treaty and sent to Colombia's Congress for approval. The deal allows the US to use seven bases to help... » read this article

  Recent scenes of roadblocks, strikes and even the dynamiting of a vice-minister’s home in the Bolivian department (administrative district) of Potosi, reminiscent of the days of previous neoliberal governments, have left many asking themselves what is really going on in the “new” Bolivia of indigenous President Evo Morales. Since... » 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

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

Editor's Note: Margarita Lacabe translated the lyrics of Mercedes Sosa's beautiful revolutionary song, "Juana Azurduy" from Spanish into English. Along with the music video republished below from her website, Margarita describes how she came to revisit the memory of Juana Azurduy, the significance of revolutionary women in Latin American history and the... » read this article

Cuba's former President Fidel Castro has unveiled plans to release the first volume of his memoirs. The book, to be called The Strategic Victory, will be published in August. It will focus on the story of how just a few hundred revolutionaries under Mr Castro's command defeated the Cuban army... » 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