Vsc Magazine Volume 4 Issue 2 Winter 2014

■ Vol 4 ■ Issue 2 ■ Autumn 2014

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■ Progressive Change Continues■ Billions announced for Investment in Regeneration

■ Latin America Stands With Gaza■ 65+ British Politicians Oppose US Sanctions

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Presidential election result in April 2013. But itcould not stop Nicolas Maduro’s election in apoll deemed free and fair by a wide range ofinternational observers.

Seeing the outcome, Henrique Capriles (thedefeated candidate) called on his supporters to‘vent their anger’. This they surely did, with awave of street violence aimed at ousting thegovernment. Fourteen people, two of themchildren, died.

Skilful leadership and policies to benefit themajority of the population, with the governmentlaunching a number of measures to tackleoverpricing in the economy, transformed thenarrow victory of the April 2013 presidentialelections into a solid victory in the December2013 municipal elections. Pro-governmentcandidates won 76% of the country’smayoralties and the Right only 23%.

President Maduro proceeded to call on theRight to enter a dialogue with his governmentto jointly address long-standing problems thecountry faced: crime, distribution of basicconsumables, financial speculation and soforth. Many opposition mayors respondedpositively.

Partly to prevent such collaboration,Venezuela’s extreme right, funded by the US,launched La Salida (‘the ousting’), a politicalcampaign of street violence aimed explicitly atousting the government (as covered in depth inthe last Viva Venezuela). This led to both atragic loss of life – 42 people, the principal

causes being lethal right-wing violence anddeliberately dangerous street barricades – andUS$10-15bn worth of infrastructure damage. The violent ‘ousting’ campaign has sincedwindled, having only ever been supported bythe extreme minority within the minority of thecountry that the opposition represents. ButPresident Maduro has maintained his call fordialogue, involving Latin America, notably theUnion of South American Nations, to participateas guarantors.

Since then, President Maduro has reshuffled hiscabinet and announced a number of newpolicies to better address the country’seconomic problems. Mechanisms to monitorand tackle overpricing have been strengthened,and a meeting held with Colombia’s Presidentto establish a raft of measures to combatcontraband.

Venezuela has also seen a successful congressof the governing PSUV party, which has furtherplaced the party – by far the country’s largestin terms of grassroots involvement and with thegreatest electoral support – at the centre of thepolitical process.

This welcome progress deserves internationalsupport, while maintaining vigilance against thethreats of intervention and destabilisation.

Venezuela’s ProgressiveChange Continues

Contributors to this issue were:■ Lee Brown■ Paul Dobson■ Francisco Dominguez■ Siân Errington ■ Sue Grey ■ Ewan Robertson■ Matt Willgress and

■ Tim Young

This magazine is published by theVenezuela Solidarity Campaign

Despite continued USaggression and anti-

democratic destabilisationby the right-wing

opposition, PresidentMaduro continues to take

Venezuela’s revolutionforward.

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Following President Hugo Chávez’s deathin March 2013, the US, its internationalallies and Venezuela’s Right thought themoment they had been waiting for had

arrived. Without Chávez, they reckoned, theBolivarian Revolution would surely unravel –and to aid that, they would hasten its demise by unleashing a well-orchestrateddestabilisation plan.

The plan centred on waging what theVenezuelan government termed an ‘economicwar,’ with those opposed to the democraticgovernment using their economic power in away reminiscent of Chile in the 1970s. Thisincluded hoarding food and essential dailyitems, overpricing durables, truckingconsumables as contraband over the border toColombia and large-scale hard currencyspeculation.

The right-wing opposition expected its negativeconsequences to erode Chavismo’s electoralbase. It certainly contributed to the close

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Mercosur Summit Emphasises Continued Social Progress in Latin America

The Common Market of the South is acustoms and trade alliance founded in1991. Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay,Uruguay and Venezuela are full

members, with the grouping comprising 275million inhabitants and 83% of South America’sGDP.

Although initially envisaged as a free trade bloc,the steady consolidation of progressive, left-wing governments across the region has ledMercosur to reject free market principles in

Mercosur recently held its 46th Presidential Summit in Caracas.

favour of a more social and integrationistdirection. Dilma Rousseff of Brazil was quick toemphasize that the more equal development ofmember countries, regardless of relativeeconomic power, was now the raison d’être ofthe organization.

Venezuela took over the rotating presidency inJuly 2013 and has focused on pushing for anincreased focus on social justice, including thedevelopment of literacy and hunger eradicationprogrammes and the launch of Mercosur

New $1.2 Billion Investment Announced toRegenerate Venezuela’s Poorest Areas

Investment in social spending andinfrastructure is continuing in Venezuela,with the Government announcing aninvestment of 7.3 billion bolivars ($US 1.2

billion) in urban and rural regeneration as partof its pledge to eradicate extreme structuralpoverty by 2018.

Renovating housing in barrios (shanty towns) isone key part of the investment programme, whichalso includes the construction of new publicspaces, the installation or improvement of basicservices, new community policing initiatives and

the promotion of community organisations andactivities.The work will be undertaken by the ‘NewBarrio, Tricolour Barrio Great Mission’ agovernment social programme set up to improveliving standards in the country’s barrios in acomprehensive and sustainable fashion. The newinjection of funds almost doubles the amountspent on the programme so far this year.

The funding will be directed to 63 geographicalzones across the country where the programmecurrently works as well as ten new targetedzones.

President Maduro with President Mujica of Uruguay

People's Solutions to Climate Crisis Set Out

Indigena, to ensure representation for LatinAmerica's indigenous populations. Bolivia hasalso been fully incorporated into Mercosurunder Venezuela’s presidency.

Social movements gathered on

Isla Margarita, Venezuela, in the

summer to discuss their demands The meeting, organised by theVenezuelan government, was the first ofits kind. It brought together socialmovements from all over the world and

facilitated discussions to arrive at the Margaritadeclaration, which will eventually form part ofthe civil society input for Lima.

According to Friends of the Earth International,“the innovative declaration goes right to theheart of a wealth of important issues that havebeen long-neglected due to a lack of politicalwill at the UN climate talks.

It emphasises the need for justice in theresponse to climate change, and the need totransform our societies to prevent furtherenvironmental decay and social injustice.”

ahead of United Nations climate

talks due to take place in Lima,

Peru, in December.

Green groups celebrate the declaration


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Governing Socialist Party Congress Charts the Way Ahead

Despite hype from elements of the right-wing media inVenezuela that the Third Congress of the governing United

Socialist Party would be dominated by internal divisions, theopposite proved to be the case, with over 1000 attending anddelegates rallying behind the leadership of President Maduro,

whom they elected as PSUV president.

four key aims: to deepen democracy; expandand improve social programmes; intensify thetransformation of the state and economy; andoppose internal and external attempts todestabilise Venezuela.

Numerous international motions were alsopassed including one on Israel’s war crimes inGaza and support for the struggles againstausterity in Europe.

There were over 70 delegations from acrossthe globe, with Presidents Evo Morales (Bolivia),Pepe Mujica (Uruguay), Daniel Ortega(Nicaragua) and Salvador Sanchez Ceren (El Salvador) present.

Over two million members votedthroughout the country to elect 537delegates who engaged in three daysof intense discussion and debate.

President Maduro had called for a “livelyCongress, which has looked for a debate as theboxer looks for a fight, which doesn’t run fromcriticism nor public opinion” and described asexcellent the special sessions with ministers,arranged so delegates could question andcriticise ministers’ performance.

The Congress adopted 32 resolutions –resulting from over 25,000 grassrootsproposals to the Congress – that emphasised

TeleSUR EnglishLaunchedThe Spanish-languagetelevision networkstarted by Venezuelawith other nations in theregion to provide newsfor and from LatinAmerica will now reachaudiences in English.

Under the strapline "Don't resign yourself to having just one side ofthe story", TeleSUR unveiled a news website that will serve as ahub for hours of daily multimedia programming in English.

While the main goal will be to reshape views about Latin America withdispatches from around the region, it will also offer an alternative taketo mainstream media coverage of world events.

One of its first programmes was an interview by Tariq Ali of NicolasMaduro (pictured) which can be viewed at www.telesurtv.net/english

Tariq Ali interviews President Maduro


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Splits in Right-Wing Opposition

Venezuela’s coalition of right wingopposition parties is in turmoil afterthe resignation of Jose RamonAveledo, its Executive Secretary, and

the further resignation of its AssistantSecretary, Ramon Jose Medina.

Sharp internal criticism has been levelledagainst the leadership of the Mesa de UnidadDemocratica (MUD) coalition, not only Aveledobut also defeated presidential candidateHenrique Capriles and Primero Justicia, theparty headed by Julio Borges. It is well knownthat Primero Justicia is the darling of the USRepublican Right and, reportedly, gets the bulkof the US funding provided to the opposition(over US$120 million since 2002).

Key figures such as Roberto Enriquez reactedby announcing that his COPEI party would leavethe MUD if its internal crisis were not resolved.Henry Ramos Allup of the ADECO party blamedthe extreme right for forcing Aveledo’sresignation.

This extreme right, led by Leopoldo Lopez,Maria Corina Machado and Antonio Ledezma,have also joined the critical chorus. Theycharge the MUD leadership of failing to supporttheir unconstitutional effort to oust PresidentMaduro during the eight weeks of violent streetprotest (La Salida) at the beginning of the year.At a recent coalition meeting they also accusedthe MUD of refusing to support their call for aconstituent assembly, in effect an appeal forthe overthrow of the government. Capriles’response was that there is no quick fix to getrid of the government – exactly the opposite ofwhat he said almost a year ago.

The MUD’s current crisis is the direct result ofits political isolation brought about by theextreme right’s street barricades’ violence(guarimba). The guarimba met massive rejection(pollsters registered 80% against it in Februaryand 85% in March).

Henrique Capriles’ public standing is also weak.A Hinterlaces poll at the beginning of July

showed that just 23% think he is the oppositionleader.

To many analysts, MUD is not only deeplydivided but has no concrete proposals toaddress any of the nation’s problems. Since2012, it seems to either parrot the governmentby falsely promising to improve upon existingsocial programmes, or swing back to its pre-2012 ways of plotting to unconstitutionally oustthe government.

As things stand in the opposition camp, therelation of forces favours the Aveledo-Caprilesaxis. However, the political pressure from theextreme right is intense. As a result, Caprilesand company continue to equivocate. The verysmall extreme right is unable to carry the day,but there is a rather weighty factor in theequation − the US. As its latest aggressivemoves show, the US’s policy towards Venezuelacontinues to be determined by the RepublicanRight, and this can only help encourage extremeand anti-democratic elements in the opposition.

Venezuela’s opposition is divided. VSC Secretary Dr. Francisco Dominguez asksif it will it choose an electoral road or coups and destabilisation


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“We need to build a neweconomic model in the

country” said Venezuelanpresident Nicolas Maduro at

the opening speech ofAugust’s National Congress of

Workers launched by theprogressive CBST trade union

centre (a TUC equivalent).

(...) and make it work," Maduro said, referring towhat he alleges is economic sabotage committedby big business. The Venezuelan government hasrepeatedly accused the opposition and bigcompanies of attempting to destabilise theeconomy, for instance by storing basic productsto create a situation of scarcity, and then sellingthe same products at high prices.

Maduro also said that Venezuela's Labour Lawwas the late Hugo Chávez' greatestdemonstration of his commitment to workers’rights and urged trade unionists not to allowthis law to go unheeded, by studying it andfighting for its application.

Over 6,500 delegates attended the Congress,including rural workers, industrial workers andcivil servants.

Wills Rangel, president of the CBST, noted thatthe Congress was not representing any sectorspecifically, not even the CBST, but rather “all

the male and female workers of the country” whowere part of the country’s transformation.

Adding “You can count on my support to

recover the companies abandoned” byfirms that do not invest, he explainedtrade unions can rely on the

Government’s support to re-activate businessesand production units that are not contributing tothe development of the country.

“Whoever gets involved in the economic war, in

one way or another, the workers, with the law in

their hands, must take over this production unit

President Maduro with trade union leaders

Successful Workers'


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Cheering crowds at the successful congress.

During an August edition of the regularradio programme In Touch With Nicolas

Maduro, Venezuela’s President announcedthe creation of what will be known as theNational Labour Council, where theworking people of Venezuela and theirrepresentatives will be able discussimportant matters directly with thegovernment, in addition to providing aspace for discussion on developing furtherpolicies in the interests of the majority ofpeople.

The national council’s delegates will bechosen by working people and theirorganisations such as the CBST, and willinclude amongst its tasks helping todevelop mechanisms to solve difficultiesfaced by the Venezuelan economy,including hoarding and over-pricing byelements of big business who arepolitically hostile to the country’s electedgovernment.

Similar discussions will also take place ona regional level.

The Congress debated plans and proposals foreconomic development, with Rangel urgingincreased investment in state owned companies.He also called for the continuing construction ofa committed and progressive union movement,genuinely representing all working people inVenezuela, adding that “we bear the responsibility

to make the revolution irreversible.”

Congress Held


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The U.S. claims that Carvajal was involved indrug trafficking, and he was put on a U.S.blacklist in 2008. But whether there is anysubstance to the charges is beside the point. Anextradition of this sort, were it to happen toalmost any country in Latin America, would bea serious offence that could cause thatgovernment to break diplomatic relations withthe U.S. There is the violation of the basicprinciple of diplomatic immunity, which is oneof the most fundamental internationalagreements that allows governments tonegotiate even during wars.

A judge in Aruba upheld the detention, but thenthe Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands cut thelegal process short by announcing that Carvajaldid in fact enjoy diplomatic immunity. Carvajalimmediately headed home to Venezuela.

Washington under President Obama has longbeen divided on how to deal with Venezuela,

even as it pursues a general strategy orientedtoward regime change. Most of the foreignservice professionals generally prefer to havediplomatic relations. But within the executivebranch and of course in Congress there areothers who fear that this could lead to anormalising of relations. In May, the Housepassed legislation placing economic sanctionson selected Venezuelan government officials.

There is no need to comment on the allegedrationale for the legislation, which was to punishhuman rights violations. The Egyptiangovernment has killed more than a thousandpeople since the military coup in July 2013, andsentenced 700 to death. The Israelis have alsokilled more than a thousand people in Gaza inthe past weeks - most of them civilians. Not onlyis there no talk of sanctions, there is not eventalk of reducing or even conditioning the billionsof U.S. taxpayer dollars, including military aid,that flow annually to these countries.

Say No to U.S. Intervention in

By Mark Weisbrot

If all the crises in Gaza, Ukraine, Iraq, Syriaand Afghanistan weren't enough, theObama administration [recently] embarkedon a path to break diplomatic relations

with Venezuela. But the drama was cut shortwhen the Dutch government announced that itwould not allow the extradition of HugoCarvajal, a Venezuelan retired general whomWashington wanted to bring to trial in U.S.courts. This story is worth a post-mortembecause it reveals an important split within theadministration on policy toward Latin America.

On July 23, Carvajal was detained byauthorities in Aruba, despite the fact that hewas admitted to the island on a diplomaticpassport and was named consul general toAruba. Aruba is a small island just 17 milesfrom the north coast of Venezuela that is part ofthe Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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n Venezuela!65+ British Politicians Oppose Proposed US SanctionsWith the help of our supporters contactingtheir MPs, 68 leading British politiciansfrom six different political parties,including former ministers Frank Dobson,Peter Hain, Sir Gerald Kaufman, JoanRuddock and Andrew Smith, have signed astatement supporting Latin America’s workfor peace and dialogue in Venezuela andopposing proposed US sanctions onVenezuela.

You can ask your MP to add their name by using our easy online tool atwww.venezuelasolidarity.co.uk

The sanctions legislation was a transparentattempt to blow up diplomatic relations withVenezuela, indifferent to the collateral damagethat it would do to relations with the rest of theregion. But it was blocked in the Senate,because President Obama did not want tobreak diplomatic relations with Venezuela, andhe wasn't about to put himself in the position ofhaving to veto the bill.

In February the Venezuelan government offeredto exchange ambassadors with the U.S., butWashington would not accept. A few weeks agothe U.S. and Venezuela exchanged chargésd'affaires, one step below ambassador. In U.S.diplomatic history for at least the past 50 years,there are almost no known cases ofWashington refusing to exchange ambassadorswith a country with which it has diplomaticrelations. So, an exchange of ambassadorscould be delayed, but probably not denied. Themove to extradite Carvajal was another attemptby the hard right to blow up diplomaticrelations with Venezuela and thereby furtherisolate the U.S. regionally.

There is little doubt that if President Obamareally wanted the extradition, the government ofthe Netherlands would have cooperated.

So once again President Obama has managedto block a right-wing attempt to breakdiplomatic relations with Venezuela, withouteven having to say a word about it. To avoidfurther drama of this sort, he should justexchange ambassadors with Venezuela, andannounce that the U.S. government intends tonormalise relations with Latin America ingeneral. This would send a message to theextremists both inside and outside ofgovernment that it is not so easy to sabotagediplomatic relations in the hemisphere.

● Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Centerfor Economic and Policy Research, inWashington, D.C. & spoke at the VSCConference in May. This article is edited &reproduced from www.justforeignpolicy.org

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The Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Ministrywas transformed this summer into ahub of activity as Venezuelansresponded en masse to their

Government’s call to provide donations for Gaza.

“We have more than a plane’s worth of donations

to send, more than two tons of food, clothes and

medicine,” explained Danielis Escalona Arellano,who has been directing the effort.

Many of those bringing donations to the centrefelt that Palestine was suffering and thatinternational organisations were failing toprotect them. “There is so much injustice and the

world is asleep,” commented Maribel Brazon,who brought medical supplies.

Additionally, Venezuela is due to begin sending240 million litres of oil to Palestine every fourmonths as part of the creation of the new bodyPetroPalestina.

Although the oil was originally intended to besent to the West Bank, Palestinian authoritieshave confirmed that it will now be sent to Gaza,where it will be used to restart electricitygeneration since, as Palestinian ambassador toVenezuela, Linda Sabeh Ali, explained, “the only

plant in the zone was bombed by Israel and now

is in total darkness.”

Thousands also marched through Caracas onnumerous occasions throughout the summer,demanding an end to Israel’s siege of Gaza. Incontrast to the attitude of many Westerngovernments, these rallies have beenannounced in government media as well asprogressive independent news sources, with aTwitter account associated with PresidentMaduro even publicising them.

In motivating support for donations and aprotest march, President Maduro said, ”Israel,

[is] recognised by the UN [as] an occupying

power that has been displacing Palestinians from

their historic territory,” before confirming hisgovernment will give asylum and shelter tochildren orphaned by the onslaught.Earlier on in the attack on Gaza, PresidentMaduro condemned “Israel’s unjust,

disproportionate and illegal military attack.”

Launching an “SOS Palestine” campaign hesaid: “Enough already, I’ve joined the campaign.”

“#SOS Palestina, let’s launch it,” he said whileholding up a handwritten placard, adding, “our

international position over the issue of Palestine is

just.”

Venezuela is not alone as other progressivegovernments in Latin America have also takenaction.

As Latin American leaders met for a summit ofthe regional bloc Mercosur, Brazil, Argentina,Uruguay and Venezuela announced in a

Venezuela Leads the Way in In contrast with

Western complicity withIsrael’s attack on Gaza,

Venezuela and its alliesare offering concrete

help to Palestine, saysMatt Willgress

Palestinian girl expresses her thanks to Venezuela.

Nicolas Maduro has spoken out for Palestine again & again onthe international stage, first as Foreign Minister & now asVenezuela’s elected President.

Hugo Chavez’s image appeared on marches across the Middle East at the time of Israel’s 2009 assault on Gaza.


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Solidarity with Gazastatement that they “energetically condemn the

disproportionate use of force by the Israeli army

in the Gaza Strip, which in the majority affects

civilians, including children and women.”

Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru and Brazil havealso recalled their ambassadors.

These positions and initiatives in solidarity withPalestine reflect a proud tradition in Venezuelain recent years.

Former President Hugo Chávez cut diplomaticrelations with Israel after its earlier war onGaza. His stance was again emphasised in theaftermath of the massacre on board the Gaza-bound aid ship Mavi Marmara in 2010, withChávez asserting that the attack was “an act of

war undertaken by the Israeli army against

defenceless civilians.”

Following the UN vote which establishedPalestine as a non-member state, a Palestiniandelegation from Ramallah visited Venezuela. Afurther notable gesture was the abolition of visasfor Palestinians wishing to travel to the country.

Most recently, just weeks before Israel’s attackson Gaza, President Maduro received PalestinianPresident Mahmoud Abbas, explaining that “the

Palestinian cause is the world’s cause.”

A key reason for the visit was to establish theaforementioned PetroPalestina, an organisationaimed at helping fulfil the oil demands of thebesieged Palestinian economy that will, in thewords of Maduro, “firm up the supplying of

diesel from Venezuela to Palestine.”

Discussions were also held on the creation of aPalestinian centre of Mission Miracle, aprogramme which, free of charge, uses lasersurgery to restore sight to people who can’tafford private attention.

As the holder of the world’s largest oil reserves,with a repeatedly elected progressivegovernment in power committed to nationalsovereignty and the redistribution of wealth,Venezuela has faced constant hostility from theUS in recent years. No doubt Venezuela’sstance on Palestine and other Middle Eastquestions, and its support for international

justice more generally is another reason for this hostility.

It can also be added that one certainconsequence if Venezuela’s revolution were everoverthrown would be the country’s dramaticrealignment with the US camp internationally.Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Elias Jaua hascriticised sectors of the Venezuelan right-wingopposition for questioning the decision to sendaid and oil to Gaza, accusing such groups ofexhibiting “a lack of humanity.” Indeed, theVenezuelan opposition has previously promisedto reestablish relations with Israel were it to winpower.

In 2012 leading opposition figure andmetropolitan mayor of Caracas, AntonioLedezma, travelled to Israel and met with PrimeMinister Binyamin Netanyahu, stating theopposition’s “willingness, under a new

government … to reestablish relations with the

state of Israel.”

● This article was originally published in theMorning Star.

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