WikiLeaks will continue releasing the leaked US embassy cables in spite of the arrest this morning of its founder, Julian Assange, over allegations in Sweden of sexual offences. The whistleblowers' website has made arrangements to continue publishing the classified documents, the airing of which has embarrassed the US government. The... » read this article

  At the end of 2005, the Embassy of the United States in Venezuela, under the leadership of then Ambassador William Brownfield (present U.S. Ambassador in Colombia), inaugurated the first of what would become a total of four seats of “virtual consulates”, known as “American Corners” in Latin America. These... » read this article

A secret document of the US Army National Ground Intelligence Center, recently declassified in part, through the application of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), confirms that the Pentagon's most powerful team for psychological operations is employing its forces against Venezuela.1 The document, dating from the year 2006, analyses... » read this article

President Hugo Chávez has just taught his slanderers another lesson on democracy. On February 15, 2009, for the fifteenth time in ten years, the Venezuelans have been asked to cast their vote, this time to pronounce their opinion on the constitutional amendment that would end the term limits of the... » read this article

Diagonal's interview with President Hugo Chávez Frias, ten years after having been elected President of Venezuela     (Translated into English for Axis of Logic by Iris Buehler in Merida, Venezuela and revised by Les Blough in La Victoria) On December 6, 1998, a person unknown beyond Venezuelan borders won the presidential... » read this article

Ten years of Chavez: What are your experiences? The British web site, in its English version, makes a biased request against president Chávez, by signaling that the relation of the sector that supports him, adulates him and that those who oppose him, hates him: it would seem as if no... » read this article

Editor’s Comment The following report by Venezuelan ex-Minister of Defense, José Vicente Rangel cannot be dismissed as an idle rumor. Evidence of this sort of interference by Washington in democratic processes in Latin America abounds. The continuing efforts by the CIA to build up a matrix of opinion among members... » read this article

Taking advantage of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez' state visit to France on November 19 and 20, 2007, Reporters Without Frontiers (RSF) published a letter addressed to French president Nicolas Sarkozy in which they denounce "some disturbing tendencies of [Chávez'] regime [and] his behavior on the international scene." The Paris-based organization... » read this article

Editor's Note: Those who inform themselves about current events on even a marginal basis know that the western media uses their own selection of news reports, terminology, turns of phrase, half-truths and other manipulations to promote capitalist and neo-colonial ideologies. They do so despite their claims to be "value-free", impartial... » read this article

Editor's Comment: In recent weeks we have been watching Venezuelan students gathering iin Caracas for noisy protests against the Constitutional Reform slated for a vote on December 2nd. Two days ago they marched to the National Assembly where they presented a paper documenting their rejection of the reforms. While they... » read this article

The Venezuelan oligarchy furiously criticizes President Ch�vez for the aid it provides in the form of cheap oil to the government in Havana. Indeed, Cuba receives 98,000 barrels of oil per day at preferential rates. Nevertheless, the Caribbean island is not the only nation that benefits from these favorable agreements.... » read this article

How many women do you think got beaten up today by their partners? And how many men? How many women do you think had to be hospitalized today because of these beatings? And how many men have gone through the same thing? How many women do you think have had... » read this article

Editor's Note: Do you think you understand President Hugo Chavez Frias, the Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian Revolution? I had the opportunity to sit in my Boston living room while a friend watched President Chavez' June 2nd speech in Venezuela and translated portions of it for me over the telephone. The same speech is the subject of... » read this article

Since 2005, the European Union has provided funding to the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), a public-private consortium in charge of providing technical assistance in processes of privatization of infrastructure for vital public needs such as water or sanitation. Since 1999, PPIAF has spent more than 22 million euros in... » read this article

Report on 236 closures, revocations and non-renewals of radio and TV licenses in 21 countries, including the USA and the European Union  Presently, we are witnessing an intensification of attacks on the Venezuelan government rooted in the claim that Venezuela is a country where freedom of the press does not... » read this article

Venezuela's new model of communications media is the path to follow for the Americas Introduction: Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez, PhD, is a degree-holder in Communication Science and has a Master's degree in Political Philosophy. Currently he is vice-president of the Open University of Mexico (Universidad Abierta of Mexico), the country... » read this article