Labor Minister Carlos Castillo announced that labor reform plans are being discussed with trade unions and business associations.

Steve Ellner takes stock of a new stage of US imperialism and the role of the Left in challenging its advance.

Caracas, April 29, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government signed new energy agreements with energy conglomerates British Petroleum (BP) and Eni in separate ceremonies at Miraflores ...

The move fulfills the Trump administration’s demand since January that outside firms audit Venezuelan finances.

On April 11, 2002, it looked like Hugo Chávez would join a list of figures like Salvador Allende and Jacobo Árbenz, and that Venezuela would be yet another country to fall victim to a US-backed coup.

The two leaders announced joint military plans and intelligence sharing to tackle the presence of armed groups along the shared border.

Rodríguez had unveiled the commission to evaluate state assets in an April 9 presidential address. The acting leader also set ...

Hugo Chávez’ election as Venezuela’s president in 1998 as a political outsider with 56 percent of the vote attests largely to his appeal among those excluded from the nation’s political, economic and ...

Juan Carlos Loyo held various posts in Chávez’s government, including Minister of Agriculture from 2010 to 2013. Today Loyo is a researcher and a professor of political economy at the Bolivarian ...

During Hugo Chavez’s presidency, important nationalisations took place in Venezuela in various sectors of the economy. Several of the companies had previously been privatised by the neoliberal ...