The Venezuelan government is planning the construction of more than 200 "socialist" factories around the country in the next two years, according to an announcement made yesterday during a meeting of the Central Planning Committee.

During his announcement to the National Assembly on August 15, Chavez argued that these changes are necessary “to remove the old oligarchic, exploiter hegemony, the old society, and, in the words of Gramsci, to weaken the old ‘historic block.’”

he first extraordinary session convoked by Venezuela's National Assembly to debate President Hugo Chavez's proposed constitutional amendments gave its initial approval to the proposal last week.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced the construction of 15 new hospitals across the country at an event in Caracas yesterday.

Students dressed in black t-shirts, bowing down in front of lines of riot police, at times marching peacefully through the streets and at times confronting tear-gas with masks and rocks, even handing white carnations to the policemen, pleading for liberty, freedom of expression, and freedom from repression.

In the U.S. we are often faced with a dynamic and constantly changing media environment. Whether it is the FCC fining a television station for airing nudity as recently happened with the national WB station or the cancellation of a long-running radio program like the Don Imus show, we tend to view these developments as normal.

In January of 2007, President Chavez announced plans for the partial nationalization of oil reserves in Venezuela's Orinoco River region.

Democracy is not being threatened in Venezuela according to the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza yesterday at a press conference in Uruguay.

Organizations, journalists, students, activists and intellectuals in Venezuela accused the national and international media of waging a campaign against Venezuela.

So, pardon me if I'm just a little astounded by all this noise in the media, the Bush administration, the Senate and the House, about how Venezuela is "attacking" free speech and independent media by not renewing the broadcasting license of RCTV.

Unperturbed by increasing criticism about the non-renewal of the broadcast license of one of Venezuela’s main television channels, Venezuela’s President Chavez announced a major new higher education initiative and important progress in expanding the country’s health care system.

The story is framed in U.S. news media as a simple matter of censorship: Prominent Venezuelan TV station RCTV is being silenced by the authoritarian government of President Hugo Chávez, who is punishing the station for its political criticism of his government.

Venezuela's right-wing opposition parties, which turned out their supporters at the weekend to protest at the government decision not to renew the broadcast license of the RCTV network, claimed to be demonstrating in favor of media freedom.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced yesterday (April 30) that the country’s minimum wage would be raised by 20%, to $286 per month, and that Venezuela would withdraw its membership from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

In the spirit of integration, 10 presidents of South America met this Monday and Tuesday at the first South American Energy Summit to design an energy strategy for the region.

While in the name of the fight against terrorism, hundreds of thousands of people have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and others - arbitrarily detained - are tortured in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the United States government protects the most notorious terrorist in this hemisphere, attempting to deceive public opinion through interminable pseudolegal maneuvers and refusing to try him for his real crimes.

Did anyone from Greenpeace or Earth First! ever imagine that the world’s first environmental president would come from Venezuela? Many Greens might find such an idea ludicrous considering that the South American nation is one of the largest oil producing countries in the world and a major resource for heavy mineral and coal mining.

Con más de dos mil 200 sindicatos y cinco centrales gremiales, el movimiento obrero venezolano vive hoy un proceso de fragmentación que para muchos se contradice con los cambios en marcha en el país sudamericano.

Following his recent re-election, President Chavez of Venezuela has announced that the broadcasting concession to Marcel Granier's Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), one of the country's main private television stations, will not be renewed when its current licence ends in May.

El presidente del Partido Comunista de Venezuela (PCV), Jerónimo Carrera, indicó que el socialismo es un asunto de conciencia, y necesita que la población venezolana se desarrolle intelectual y éticamente para lograr un desarrollo oportuno y justo.