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2014 was a difficult year for Venezuela and the Bolivarian project, with the administration of President Nicolas Maduro facing a range of challenges. These included a wave of opposition protests and violent street barricades from February – May; the assassination of key pro-government figures including young lawmaker Robert Serra in October; increased diplomatic hostility from the United States and the threat of sanctions; and continued bias, ridicule and distortion of Venezuela by many mainstream media outlets.
A central issue this year has been the country’s economic situation and the government’s attempts to resolve ongoing problems. Meanwhile, a story largely unreported in the world’s media but covered by VA.com has been the growth of the number of communes being created around the country as community activists seek to deepen the model of participatory democracy.
During these and all other developments Venezuelanalysis.com’s journalists made an extraordinary effort to cover events as they happened and provide up to date information through news, analysis, audio, photographs and interviews. Our writers played a particularly important role in revealing the false narrative being created around the right-wing opposition’s unrest movement by reporting directly from one of the areas most affected by the violence, the Andean city of Mérida. They also produced a series of original articles based on first hand research, from indigenous issues in the southern Gran Sabana to the Social PreCop climate meeting on the Caribbean island of Margarita. VA.com also continues to publish the best analysis, videos and audio on Venezuela from around the web, and translate many Venezuelan and Latin American opinion articles and voices into English. As always, the aim has been to provide our readers with honest, in depth and contextual coverage of the events shaping the country’s future and to bust the myths built up about Venezuela by hostile mainstream media outlets.
Venezuelanalysis.com needs to raise a minimum of US $5,000 to maintain our operations, and it is through the support of readers like you that we are able to stay online. We are 100% independent and reliant on reader donations, so please hit the donate button and be a crucial part of the effort to continue and expand our work in the coming year:
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If we meet our fundraising goal, we hope to expand our writing team and fund writer’s transport to important events and their own in-depth research. We would also like to hire someone to translate English language analysis into Spanish. Other projects include developing more video and audio reportage. So please help us to continue cutting through corporate spin and bring you the unique news and analysis that you need to stay on top of on one the most important transformations underway in the world today. Donate now, and spread the word!
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The VA team, December 2014: Jan Kühn, Tamara Pearson, Ewan Robertson, Gregory Wilpert, Ryan Mallett-Outtrim, Rachael Boothroyd, Michael Fox, Federico Fuentes, Eva Golinger, Kiraz Janicke, Z.C. Dutka, Cory Fischer Hoffman.
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“For Latin America solidarity activists in Australia, venezuelanalysis.com is undoubtedly one of the most valuable sources of information and analysis of developments in Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution. As a voice for the Venezuelan people’s struggles for sovereignty, democracy and justice, venezuelanalysis.com plays an indispensible role in educating and inspiring many of us on the other side of the world to build understanding and solidarity with one of the most important people’s movements for a better world for all.”
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“Never has a country, its people, its politics, its leader, its myths and truths been so misreported and lied about as Venezuela in the past decade. Not only has Venezuelanalysis done much to correct this with its scrupulous attention to facts, both obvious and concealed, it has opened up a unique space for genuine critique of one of the world's most imaginative popular movements. I can't think of another website on the web more deserving of support.”
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“Among other things, Venezuelanalysis is a superb tool for teaching! Students need the access it provides to English-language reports that are fresh, independent and give insight into what ordinary Venezuelans, not just government and opposition leaders are saying and doing.”
“Venezuelanalysis is a refreshing corrective to the one-sided reporting in the establishment media on Venezuela. While sympathetic to the interesting and novel developments taking place in Venezuela, Venezuelanalysis is hardly a mouthpiece for the Chávez government.
“The kind of objective and critical analysis found on its pages is especially important given the current ideological vacuum at the world level. There is a lack of credible proposals for transformation at a time when the old system is becoming increasingly discredited. Only the right in the United States seems to be clear about what it wants. It is thus of paramount importance that the experimental path that Venezuela is currently going down be objectively reported upon and analyzed.
“Venezuelanalysis publishes nuanced articles on internal developments in Venezuela, but not so with regard to international relations. With the activation of the U.S. Fourth Fleet last year (without consulting any Latin American nation), the U.S. decision the following year to utilize seven bases in Colombia, as well as the escalation of the war in Afghanistan (including the mass use of drones) at a time when withdrawal from Iraq is highly incomplete, there is little doubt as to who represents the greatest threat to world peace. Venezuelanalysis provides important information on this front as well, as it applies to Latin America. In short, Venezuelanalysis offers useful detail and analysis on pivotal issues that is unavailable from other media sources.”
“Venezuela Analysis is my primary source on all things Venezuela. When people ask where to look for information and analysis about Venezuela, I point to it first, second, and third. Why? Because the writers and editors are incredibly well informed and eloquent, have their eye, ears, and minds situated amidst the events, and because the reporting and analysis is biased in the best way possible - it unabashedly takes the side of the country's poor, whether this means being in support of or critical of government policies.”
“Venezuelanalysis is a vital source of sensible information about Venezuela and the new developments in Latin America, at a time of intense propaganda and corporate media lies.”
“Around the world the private media dominates the airwaves, the press, the internet, depriving people of their own voice and popular expression. Internationally and internally there is a big campaign of private media lies against our revolutionary Bolivarian process, against our president and against the Venezuelan people. We are struggling against imperialist domination, for sovereignty, for control over our own resources, for control over our own destinies and to break the logic of exploitation of the capitalist system. I want to congratulate Venezuelanalysis.com for reflecting the reality of our struggle.”
“I like venezuelanalysis.com because it is my major source of information on what is actually taking place in the Bolivarian Revolution, and particularly in Venezuela. In Canada, like the US, there is no positive information about 21st century socialism. Being able to read bits and pieces of the developments and progress toward a better world that are occurring as the result of this peaceful revolution is possible for me primarily through Venezuelanalysis.com. My greatest desire is to see this information made much more readily available throughout North America.”
“Even while living in Caracas for the past year, I rely on Venezuelanalysis for high quality reporting of developments in Venezuela, and the region. These not only provide a counter-weight to mainstream media distortions, but offer constructively critical analysis for anyone with an interest in this contemporary social revolution.”
“I enjoy Venezuelanalysis as a source of information and perspectives mostly unavailable in the US. The struggle to create a more humane and equitable society in Venezuela is one of the most important stories of the last decade, and your website promotes that effort in a nonsectarian and clear-headed way. Your reportage is an inspiration in two ways. First, most obviously, we now have hope that the reality of Venezuela\'s reforms and revolutionary changes will be known to people in the Anglosphere. Second, the mobilization of millions of venezolanos to take control of their own future warms the heart and feeds the soul, particularly in these demoralizing times in the US.”
“Venezuela Analysis has been an important source of balanced information regarding Venezuela, Latin America and the Caribbean since its inception. Currently, as the months go by, one has to appreciate even more so the work that Venezuela Analysis is doing. This web site, through the devotion of its talented team of journalists and writers, is increasingly contributing to the world-wide serious opposition against the media war being waged by Washington and its principal allies with one sole objective as far as Latin America and the Caribbean is concerned: To take back what the US considers to be 'its own backyard.' Even though I specialize in the Cuban political system and US manoeuvres against this island, Cuba is not an island unto itself in the political sense as far relations with Venezuela and the south.
In fact, the whole region is bubbling with debate and discussion on participatory democracy, 21st century socialism and sovereignty while taking into account the history and traditions of each country. For this reason Venezuelan Analysis is of great assistance in my work and thus I encourage all those who are interested in Latin America and the Caribbean to strongly support Venezuela Analysis.”
“Generally: Venezuela Analysis, which incidentally, I see quoted more and more in media of all kinds as an authority on Venezuela, is how I keep up with the Bolivarian Revolution, an unfolding experiment in socialism and the most important current attempt to find an alternative to capitalism. Specifically: Just this morning I needed an example of bias by Reporters Without Borders for something I was doing for my web log, and easily found a thorough Venezuela Analysis piece that served my needs.”
“Whenever I need to know what is really going on in Venezuela, I turn to venezuelanalysis.com, the best single source for all things Venezuelan. Because history has proven that we cannot trust the reporting of the corporate-controlled media, venezuelanalysis.com provides crucial balance for anyone wanting to get all sides of the story.”
“As the producer of Wake Up With Co-Op! a morning public affairs show on community radio in Vancouver, Canada, I find the articles in venezuelanalysis.com an invaluable source of reliable information on the Venezuelan revolution, and the entire movement for nation building in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a truthful antidote to the barrage of disinformation from not only US monopoly owned media sources, but also, regrettably, from the publicly owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
We are proud to have been the first in Canada to expose the blatant lie generated by the US state department and rebroadcast by the CBC in April 2002 that the crowds gathered at the Presidential Palace after President Chavez was kidnapped were there to 'cheer the coup d'etat'! We have been carrying ongoing reports on developments in Venezuela, and we thank venezuelanalysis.com for their direct assistance to us in helping take the truth of the Bolivarian revolution to our audiences whenever we've asked.”
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