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🗒️🗣️ INTERVIEW | Heyerde López: ‘Our Challenge Is Staying True as a Left-Wing Organization’ In the latest VA interview, activist Heyerde López reflects on the structural challenges facing grassroots organizing in Venezuela, pointing to the difficulty of sustaining long-term projects while maintaining political coherence. López, a member of "Fundación Nativa Crea" in Guarenas, frames this as a central tension: “The main challenge is staying true to our identity as a left-wing organization,” he says, highlighting mounting economic pressures and contradictions in the relationship between popular power initiatives and state institutions. US sanctions and restrictions on wheat imports forced the closure of the group’s community bakery and café, key nodes in its local production network. The experience underscores how external constraints continue to impact grassroots economic initiatives. The collective is now working to relaunch these projects, with an emphasis on rebuilding communal forms of production and strengthening local productive capacity. Despite these setbacks, "Fundación Nativa Crea" remains embedded in broader networks of communes and social movements, while expanding its work in political education, communications, and grassroots production. Read the full interview here 👉https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/heyerde-lopez-our-challenge-is-staying-true-as-a-left-wing-organization/ #Art#Communes#NationalPopularConsultation#PopularPower

📰 NEWS | Venezuelans Pick State-Funded Projects to Address Local Community Needs Millions of Venezuelans took part on March 8 in the first National Popular Consultation of 2026, a participatory mechanism allowing organized communities to select and manage publicly funded projects. Voting took place across 5,336 communal circuits, where residents aged 15 and older chose among proposals previously discussed in local assemblies. Projects focused on priorities such as water distribution, electrical grid repairs, infrastructure works, healthcare equipment, food production, and cooking gas cylinder replacement. Once approved by majority vote, each project receives US$10,000 in state funding, transferred directly to the community for self-managed execution. Read our full report here 👉🏾https://shorturl.at/4jxUm #Communes#NationalPopularConsultation

📸 IN IMAGES | Venezuelans Select State-Funded Initiatives to Address Local Needs in Latest Popular Consultation Venezuelans headed to the polls on Sunday to pick local projects that will receive state funding. This was the fourth popular consultation of 2025. Public service and infrastructure repairs were the most common initiatives put to a vote. Communes Minister Ángel Prado praised the participation in Sunday's event. Visit the link to see the full gallery: https://venezuelanalysis.com/images/venezuelans-select-state-funded-initiatives-to-address-local-needs-in-latest-popular-consultation/ #GrassrootsDemocracy#Communes#Venezuela#AngelPrado

📰 NEWS | Maduro Marches with Communal Youth Ahead of Popular Consultation as Trump Considers Venezuela Land Strikes Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro marched with thousands of members of the Communal Youth Committees in western Caracas ahead of the Nov. 23 popular consultation. Communities will choose local initiatives that receive state funding, marking the fourth consultation this year as the government reports 4,000 officially registered communes. At the same time, senior US military and intelligence officials have presented Trump with updated options for possible operations in Venezuela. The USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group has entered the US Southern Command’s area, joining additional warships, a nuclear submarine and around 10,000 troops deployed since August. International scrutiny has intensified. CELAC–EU leaders called for respect for international law, while UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk condemned recent US maritime strikes that have killed at least 80 people. Read the full report here 👉🏾https://shorturl.at/YgVUh #Communes#NicolasMaduro#USVenezuelaRelations

📸 IN IMAGES | Venezuela: Communards Gather to Make ‘Communal Feminism’ a Priority From October 4 to 6, dozens of women representing around 20 communes gathered in Miranda state for a communal feminism meeting organized by the Communard Union and the Ministry of Communes’ School for the Strengthening of Popular Power (EFPP). The gathering addressed the collectivization of care work, feminist economy, political participation, and the prevention of gender-based violence. Organizers agreed to replicate the experience across different regions. 🔗 Don’t miss the full gallery here 👉🏼https://shorturl.at/s4WUS #CommunalFeminism#CommunardUnion#Communes

🎥 VIDEO | MAGA Imperialism vs. Venezuela: A Conversation with Chris Gilbert In this episode of Soberanía podcast, Chris Gilbert shares his insights from his on-the-ground work inside Venezuela for an in-depth conversation about the imperialist threat. Gilbert also reflects on the broader regional implications, arguing that Venezuela’s struggle embodies a wider Latin American effort to assert independence from US domination. Watch the full interview here 👉https://venezuelanalysis.com/video/imperialism-vs-venezuela-a-conversation-with-chris-gilbert/ #Communes#Mexico#USVenezuelaRelations

📝 INTERVIEW | Chávez’s Legacy in Action: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune In Palmarito, an Afro-descendant commune on Lake Maracaibo’s southern shore, Chávez’s legacy lives on through collective work and self-governance. Residents recall how the Bolivarian Revolution brought education, paved roads, and political inclusion to a once-invisible community. Now, through popular consultations, they directly decide and manage local projects, turning participatory democracy into daily practice. 🔗 Learn more in the latest VA interview:https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/chavezs-legacy-in-action-the-palmarito-afro-descendant-commune-part-v/ #AfroVenezuelans#CommunalandWorkingClassResistance#Communes#Sanctions

📝 INTERVIEW | Fisherfolk Resisting Imperialism: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune The US blockade disrupted food, fuel, and medicine supplies in Palmarito, a fishing community on Lake Maracaibo. But instead of despair, residents relied on solidarity: reviving ancestral recipes, inventing fuel-saving motors, and sustaining schools with communal contributions. They also reopened their health center, now running 24/7 with communal funds. 🔗 Learn more in the latest VA interview: https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/fisherfolk-resisting-imperialism-the-palmarito-afro-descendant-commune-part-iv #AfroVenezuelans#CommunalandWorkingClassResistance#Communes#Fishing#Sanctions

📝 INTERVIEW | ‘Fishing Provides for Everyone’: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune On the southern shore of Lake Maracaibo, communards sustain themselves through fishing, but equally through practices of solidarity. Nearly 90% of residents rely on fishing, and in Palmarito, the catch is distributed collectively so that no household is left behind. Fisherfolk organize through councils (CONPPAs), including an all-women council, to manage resources, secure boats and nets, and ensure wealth stays in the community. 🔗 Read the full interview here: https://shorturl.at/kdIT2 #AfroVenezuelans#CommunalandWorkingClassResistance#Communes#Fishing

📝 INTERVIEW | Culture and Resistance: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune Afro-Venezuelan communards on the southern shore region of Lake Maracaibo discuss the intersection of culture and organization. The Chimbánguele drumming cycle around San Benito of Palermo is not only a religious devotion but also a way of learning leadership, collective responsibility, and self-governance. While men lead the drumming, women take part through the Gaita de tambora, using song to tell stories, critique, and celebrate, ensuring their voices are central in the community. Culture here is both memory and organization, a living practice that anchors communal life. 🔗 Read the full interview here: https://shorturl.at/Cy0Yr #AfroVenezuelans#CommunalandWorkingClassResistance#Communes

📝 INTERVIEW | A Story of Resistance and Renewal: The Palmarito Afro-Descendant Commune The Palmarito Afrodescendant Commune, founded in 2011, gathers around 3,000 people along Lake Maracaibo’s southern shore. Its roots, however, stretch back to centuries of anti-colonial resistance and Afro-Venezuelan cultural traditions such as devotion to San Benito and the Chimbánguele. In the latest VA interview, commune members reflect on syncretism, anti-colonial struggles, and grassroots organization. 🔗 Read the full interview here: https://shorturl.at/hase1 #AfroVenezuelans#CommunalandWorkingClassResistance#Communes

📝 INTERVIEW | Venezuela’s Communal Project: A Conversation with Ángel Prado Ángel Prado, a founder of El Maizal Commune and Minister of Communes, outlines Venezuela’s communal project as both a response to urgent needs and a long-term path toward socialism. One example is the popular consultations launched in May 2024. Every three months, communes across the country hold assemblies to debate local priorities, vote on a single project, and directly manage the allocated funds. Prado states this process has re-engaged citizens, strengthened trust in grassroots structures, and proven that “an organized pueblo can achieve more than any state institution alone.” 🔗 Read the full interview here: https://shorturl.at/yk0u9 #AngelPrado#Communes#HugoChavez#HugoChavezLegacy