This blog is a gesture of solidarity with the revolutionary people of Venezuela and reflects my own views based on my experiences working with the Bolivarian movement in Canada and Venezuela. Since the coup in 2002, I have been involved in many forms with the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. My involvement began during the coup, when I was working with a radio collective in Vancouver that produces weekly current affairs programs on Latin American politics, society, culture and the economy. We received several e-mails from a colleague in Caracas who was asking, no, begging us to tell the truth about what was happening in Venezuela. Because our collective had a lot of experience with critical analysis of mainstream media (after all, we were a community radio collective), we decided to put our colleague on the air live and let him tell his story. The rest of his story is history, and if you haven't been living under a rock for the last 5 years, you know the story: http://www.chavezthefilm.com/index_ex.htm
Since that time, I have visited Venezuela on numerous occasions, attending conferences, travelling in the countryside and talking and debating with Chavistas and those opposed to the government; doing field research for graduate work on participatory democracy; producing radio and written copy on developments in Venezuela; giving public talks and encouraging people to make their own journeys to Venezuela to judge for themselves.
I will be posting my own written and audio pieces on Venezuela here, as well as photos and links to other interesting, pro-Bolivarian sites. If you want the minority, opposition view on Venezuela, you need look no further than the New York Times, the Globe and Mail and other mainstream media outlets.
Since that time, I have visited Venezuela on numerous occasions, attending conferences, travelling in the countryside and talking and debating with Chavistas and those opposed to the government; doing field research for graduate work on participatory democracy; producing radio and written copy on developments in Venezuela; giving public talks and encouraging people to make their own journeys to Venezuela to judge for themselves.
I will be posting my own written and audio pieces on Venezuela here, as well as photos and links to other interesting, pro-Bolivarian sites. If you want the minority, opposition view on Venezuela, you need look no further than the New York Times, the Globe and Mail and other mainstream media outlets.
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