Hier kommt ein Video, in dem Abby Martin den venezolanischen Minister für Wirtschaft und Planung Ricardo Menéndez interviewt, das auf Spanisch geführt wird, aber mit englischen Untertiteln versehen ist. Der Minister erklärt sehr anschaulich und verständlich, wie und von wem die Probleme verursacht wurden: 1. Der Wirtschaftskrieg der USA, 2. die finanziellen Manipulationen der USA zur Zerstörung der Währung, 3. den manipulierten Ölpreis-Verfall, 4. durch Sabotage der ungeheuer reichen Oligarchen, die Medien zu 90 % und die riesigen Supermärkte fast vollständig kontrollieren, 5. den starken Zuwachs der Bevölkerung - zumal der Kinder und der Alten - was zu einem starken Anwachsen des Budgets für Gesundheit, für die Erziehung, die Schulspeisungen, die Altersversorgung etc. pp. geführt hat, wohlgemerkt alle kostenlos. Und dies alles bei einem brutalen Rückgang der Einnahmen aus dem Erdöl. Es mag durchaus auch Korruption geben, aber im großen und ganzen kann sie keine größere Rolle spielen, sonst wären alle diese Programme, die weiterlaufen, nicht denkbar.
Danach ein Interview von Farooque Chowdhury und Fred Magdoff mit Christina Schiavoni, die seit anderthalb Jahren in einem Armenviertel von Caracas lebt. Sie ist Aktivistin und Spezialistin für Nahrungssicherheit und hat ein Forschungs PhD. Und sie bestätigt praktisch, was der Minister oben gesagt hat, was zeigt, dass er keine Propaganda-Märchen erzählte.
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Venezuela: Die Menschen treiben die Revolution voran plus Video mit Abby Martin
People Are
Radicalizing The Bolivarian Revolution
by
Farooque Chowdhury
September 3, 2017
by Farooque
Chowdhury and Fred Magdoff
Amidst imperialist
interference, the people in Venezuela are carrying on the task of
reorganizing their society. Real-life picture in Venezuela is far
different from new-reports the mainstream media continuously
circulates. The following interview of Christina Schiavoni, a
researcher and food sovereignty activists, provides a different view
of the life of the Venezuelan people than we normally get from the
media. The interview covers food and health situations as well as
on-going politics and people’s participation in the politics. The
interview was conducted by Farooque Chowdhury and Fred Magdoff, in
August 2017.
Q 1: Every day we
are being bombarded by the mainstream media with Venezuela related
news. Will you, please, share with us your recent experience in
Venezuela?
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| "Die Menschen hungern", sagen die Amis. |
Christina Schiavoni:
Sure. I am a food sovereignty activist and a PhD researcher. I am
originally from the US and my research institute is based in the
Netherlands, but I have been living in Venezuela over the past year
and a half, examining food politics here. It’s been quite the
dynamic moment to be here doing this research! One of the best parts
about it is that I have been living with friends – a family – in
the working-class neighborhood of El Valle, Caracas. This has given
me a direct glimpse into the daily realities facing the majority of
the population, which is urban and working-class. At the same time, I
have had the opportunity to visit other parts of the city and to
travel to more than half of Venezuela’s twenty-three states to
witness other realities.
The main thing I’d
like to emphasize about daily life in Caracas is that indeed people
are carrying on. Markets are bustling, children are playing in the
streets, cultural activities are happening, etc. There is a major
disconnect between this reality and what’s presented in the news,
which looks as if Caracas is a war zone. Those images, e.g., of
masked protestors in direct confrontation with police forces were
from demonstrations largely confined to the wealthier areas of the
city. For communities such as El Valle, daily life is more or less
the same as usual. The only thing is that when the demonstrators
blocked the roads, even in other parts of the city, this had ripple
effects on transportation more broadly, making it hard for people to
get to work, school, appointments, etc. And, then, of course, there
were the impacts of ongoing economic destabilization activities,
which I will get to shortly.
The other thing I’d
like to emphasize, which I hope to speak to more as we go on, is that
all of the grassroots organizing and mobilizing that the Bolivarian
Revolution has been known for over the years is very much alive and
kicking right now. This was never of interest to the mainstream
media, but even the alternative media has been rather remiss in its
coverage, and far too often it is as if the people, communities, and
movements that are doing a tremendous amount of inspiring work on the
ground are invisible.
Hier weiterlesen.
