Venezuela's election is not until September, but the international campaign to delegitimise the government has already begun Venezuela has an election for its national assembly in September, and the campaign has begun in earnest. I am referring to the international campaign. This is carried out largely through the international media,... » read this article

Editor's Note: The Interamerican Court is an autonomous institution of the Organization of American States (OAS) that is in charge of applying and interpreting the American Convention on Human Rights. - LMB Official court audio recording reveals judges’ conspiracy against Venezuela. March 20, 2010, Axis of Logic - Audio evidence... » read this article

In a nationally televised address Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced a massive expansion of the government’s subsidised food system, Mercal, on Thursday. He also argued that it is necessary to establish a socialist system of distribution and consumption of products, to replace the capitalist market. In order to strengthen the... » read this article

The Empire will stop at nothing to find mechanisms and techniques to achieve its final objective, and we cannot disregard the possibility of a military conflict in the near future. If the US places Venezuela on the “terrorist list” this year, we could be on the verge of a regional... » read this article

Wage increases designed to equalize incomes in the public health sector were approved yesterday for Venezuelan doctors working in the country’s Ministry of Health. President Hugo Chavez made the announcement from the Municipal Theater in Caracas during an address celebrating Venezuela’s National Doctor’s Day.  The increases will be retroactive from... » read this article

General Douglas Fraser, Chief of the United States’ Southern Command, confirmed yesterday that the Venezuelan government has no relation to the Basque separatist movement ETA nor the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Speaking to the US Senate, Fraser admitted that although the Southern Command has "continued to watch very... » read this article

“We are not anti-American, we are anti-Imperialism” My request to interview President Hugo Chavez Frias of Venezuela was finally granted on March 2nd while we were down in Montevideo, Uruguay with President Chavez for the inauguration of the new left-ish president and freedom fighter, Jose Mujica. The reasons I went... » read this article

Editorial comment by Arturo Rosales: The basic information outlined below is what readers abroad will rarely see in the corporate media. From the BBC to CNN, FOX and the floundering big city newspapers. If such media ever did publish this information it would be an admission that Chávez’ economic policies... » read this article

Yesterday Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez attended new Uruguayan president Jose Mujica’s swearing in ceremony, where he congratulated Mujica, talked of Latin American unity and further Venezuela-Uruguayan cooperation, and accepted Mujica’s offer to mediate between Venezuela and Colombia. Jose (Pepe) Mujica, of the left wing party Frente Amplio, won the presidential... » read this article

Editor's Comment: The following article was translated and expanded for Axis of Logic from Aporrea, a Spanish language newspaper by Arturo Rosales, an Axis columnist. The news broke in English in a somewhat obscure periodical on March 1st, followed by a corporate media barrage around the world on March 2nd.... » read this article

Kiraz Janicke  is a journalist for Venezuela Analysis, the foremost independent English-language source of news on Venezuela. She is editor of the Peru en Movimiento website and is a member of the Caracas bureau of Green Left Weekly.  Federico Fuentes is an associate of the Centro Internacional Miranda, an independent agency funded by Venezuela’s Ministry of Popular... » read this article

I “Zamora lives, the fight continues," is the motto brought to life by our people. There could not be a better occasion for the enactment of the Organic Law of the Federal Council of Government than the unveiling of the statue of the Peoples General Ezequiel Zamora in the El... » read this article

Merida, February 27th, 2010 –Venezuelan vice-president Elias Jaua presented a balance of the government’s achievements and projects in 2009 to the National Assembly on Thursday. Highlights included 949 health projects, construction and renovation of schools, 18 million free books and magazines distributed, and 137,000 people trained  in computer literacy.  ... » read this article

Apparently, the corporate media doesn't consider it to be newsworthy: the confession to a Colombian prosecutor of 30,000 murders by paramilitaries who are linked to the Alvaro Uribe regime. To date, Associated Press, Reuters and their contracted media outlets remain silent on this latest news. If it had taken place... » read this article

In a February 17 article “Venezuela’s Renegade Aid” published in the Huffington Post, freelance journalist Patrick Adams implies that there is something untoward and problematic about the Venezuelan aid effort in earthquake ravaged Haiti. Venezuela’s main crime appears to be its non-participation in the UN coordinated “cluster system” which Adams... » read this article

Decisive battles between the forces of revolution and counter-revolution loom on the horizon in Venezuela. The campaign for the September 26 National Assembly elections will be a crucial battle between the supporters of socialist President Hugo Chavez and the US-backed right-wing opposition. But these battles, part of the class struggle... » read this article

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has opted to hold democratic internal elections for its candidates in the upcoming National Assembly elections to be held on September 26. All seven million registered PSUV members will be eligible to nominate and vote in the internal elections. Nominations... » read this article

The government of Hugo Chavez was correct last week when a representative said Ottawa supports "coup plotters" and "destabilizers" in Venezuela. But it's not because Harper is of the "ultra right" as suggested. In fact, both Liberal and Conservative governments have tacitly supported the U.S. campaign to replace the government... » read this article

Over the weekend Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez inaugurated some of the new government run hypermarkets which are taking the place of the recently nationalised Exito hypermarket chain, announced the possibility of buying 80% of another, related, supermarket chain, ordered Venezuelan food company Polar to move its storage buildings out of... » read this article

In the largest oil investment decision since Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was elected, the government announced on Wednesday that private companies from Japan, India, Malaysia, Spain, the United States, and Venezuela, making up two consortiums, won the bid to explore and exploit the Carabobo block of Venezuela’s Orinoco oil belt.... » read this article