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The Venezuelan people stay with the Bolivarian revolution
About half of Venezuela’s voting population is reliably wedded to the Bolivarian project. No other political project in Venezuela has the kind of election machine built by the forces of the Bolivarian revolution, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
OVERWHELMING JOY: Government supporters rally in defense of President Nicolas Maduro’s reelection in Caracas on Wednesday, three days after the country’s presidential election
JOHN PERRY examines the forces seeking to use the end of Xiomara Castro’s term to return Honduras to Washington’s camp, with this month’s elections at risk of interference
THE threat of further attacks upon Iran, following the bombings by Israel and the United States in June 2025, looms large in the thinking of the Iranian people. The leadership of the Islamic Republic is however corrupt, divided and in danger of paving the way for foreign intervention. Codir’s executive member Steve Bishop reports
From mass protests to plummeting poll numbers on immigration and health policy, and from devastating cuts to Medicaid and Medicare to the anti-science upheaval at federal health agencies, the president’s agenda is radicalising voters against him, argues JOHN LISTER
Whether in recycling or energy policy, a deeper crisis in long-term thinking is apparent in Scotland. With the new Budget looming, MATT KERR wonders if we can move beyond shallow, headline-grabbing measures
Ahead of elections next year, Scottish Labour is seeking to jump-start its political fortunes – but without bringing wealth and wealth production under democratic control, the party’s future looks in doubt, says VINCE MILLS
ON JULY 28, the 70th birthday of Hugo Chavez (1954-2013), Nicolas Maduro Moros won the Venezuelan presidential election, the fifth since the Bolivarian constitution was ratified in 1999.
In January 2025, Maduro will start his third six-year term as president. He took over the reins of the Bolivarian revolution after the death of Chavez from pelvic cancer in 2013.
Since the death of Chavez, Maduro has faced several challenges: to build his own legitimacy as president in the place of a charismatic man who came to define the Bolivarian revolution; to tackle the collapse of oil prices in mid-2014, which negatively affected Venezuela’s state revenues (over 90 per cent of which were from oil exports); and to manage a response to the unilateral, illegal sanctions deepened on Venezuela by the United States as oil prices declined.
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