June was a busy month for two of Washington’s real ‘Axis of Evil’. Venezuela’s Chavez completed his nationalisation of oil and Iran’s Ahmedinejad stemmed a Western-backed colour revolution, leaving both bad boys in place, muses Eric Walberg   What drives US foreign policy? Is it primarily the domestic economy, as... » read this article

President Zelaya of Honduras has just been kidnapped [Note: As of 11:15am, Caracas time, President Zelaya is speaking live on Telesur from San Jose, Costa Rica. He has verified the soldiers entered his residence in the early morning hours, firing guns and threatening to kill him and his family if... » read this article

On May 29, 2009, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an open letter to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in which the association denounced that Globovisión, a “privately-owned news channel” was “being hounded by the government and the administration.”  According to the Paris-based organization, Globovisión “has been targeted by official proceedings that... » read this article

The right to health care is guaranteed in the Venezuelan Constitution, which was written and ratified by the people in 1999.  Through implementing a state-funded social program called Barrio Adentro, or inside the barrio, free comprehensive health care is available to all Venezuelans. Beginning in June 2003 through a trade... » read this article

A delegation of Venezuelan officials led by Vice President Ramon Carrizalez met with Russian officials including former President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to create the bank and review the progress of ongoing bilateral projects. The vice ministers of finance of the two countries, Dmitry Pankin of Russia and Gustavo Hernandez... » read this article

In response to an opposition-led media campaign to convince Venezuelans that the Education Law under discussion in the  Venezuelan National Assembly will permit the government to arbitrarily take custody of children, Education Minister Hector Navarro denied that the law will contain such a clause and compared the campaign to the... » read this article

For background on this article, read: Peru: 60 dead as Garcia Regime sends police to attack indigenous road blockade   Imagine the scandal and headlines if Hugo Chávez closed a radio station in Venezuela just days after it spoke out against the government's position on a hot topic? What kind... » read this article

In Venezuela they are a key force in the country’s ongoing media-war. Armed with video cameras, they are a team of some 380  young people working for Caracas television station, Avila TV. Started as an experiment just three years ago, according to one study it is now the third most... » read this article

The Special Law on Subscription Television is now before the Venezuelan National Assembly. Its contents will be debated by the national deputies and could be on the statute book by the end of July 2009. They'll be like salivating dogs gathered around a juicy bone when the western media gets wind of the new Cable TV law... » read this article

Editor's Note: Ali Priméra (1942-1985) was a legendary composer, singer, poet and revolutionary activist here in Venezuela and remains so today, even 24 years after his death. In the music video below, he remembers Ché in his song, "Comandante Amigo". Ali's birthname was Rafael Sebastián Primera Rosell but he was known as... » read this article

The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, through the Deputy Foreign Minister for North America and Multilateral Affairs and Permanent Representative for Venezuela to the United Nations, Jorge Valero, rejected the unfounded opinions expressed by the UN rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression and the rapporteur for Freedom... » read this article

Addressing the 400-strong May 21 workshop with workers from the industrial heartland of Guayana, dedicated to the “socialist transformation of basic industry”, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez noted with satisfaction the outcomes of discussions: “I can see, sense and feel the roar of the working class.” “When the working class roars,... » read this article

The President of Globovision, Guillermo Zuloaga, has been formally charged by the Attorney General’s office with “hoarding vehicles” at a residence in the Los Chorros district of Eastern Caracas. Charges of usury could also follow when investigations are completed. Both charges under the Speculation and Hoarding Law passed in January... » read this article

A supposedly secret report by the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry, which accuses the  Bolivian and Venezuelan governments of selling uranium to Iran for its nuclear  program, has been leaked to Associated Press. Venezuela has responded by reiterating its support for all cooperation agreements it has with Iran and by criticizing ... » read this article

TEN YEARS TEACHING AND LEARNING “Hello President” began broadcasting on May 23, 1999. That day this year, Chávez was in Ecuador celebrating the 187th anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha. Tomorrow the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the program will begin. The case of Hugo Chávez is an exceptional... » read this article

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News has emerged for the National Assembly that a discussion paper has been presented to control the content of cable TV channels in Venezuela. This is precisely what was suggested in “Globovision digging its own grave in Venezuela”, published on Axis of Logic on May 22. It looks like the... » read this article

This week the Venezuelan government nationalized a gas compression plant in the eastern state of Monagas and five prominent steel and iron briquette companies as part of its two year-old national development plan to integrate the country's strategic industries under state control. President Hugo Chávez said the nationalized companies should... » read this article

Arturo Rosales reports from prosperous “Republic of East Caracas”·   Yesterday (Thursday March 21st) various commissions from the Consumer Protection Agency (INDEPABIS), Venezuelan IRS (SENIAT), Ministry of Commerce (MINCOM), the CICPC (investigative criminal police) and vehicle experts from the Institute of Terrestrial Transport (INTTT) arrived in the urbanization of Los... » read this article

May 20, 2009 In their classic 1988 book Manufacturing Consent, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demonstrated how corporate media select topics, place emphasis, set boundaries, ask questions and shape content in accordance with broad capitalist imperatives. It’s a largely unconscious process driven by conformist human beings, and infinitely more effective... » read this article