STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Monday, 11 March 2013

[Demeter]

13. Why I'm Confident About Venezuela's Future: Chavez Death Won't Kill Social Transformation

PERSONALLY, I'M NOT CONFIDENT...IF THE US INTERFERES, IT'S GOING TO BE WAR

http://www.alternet.org/world/why-im-confident-about-venezuelas-future-chavez-death-wont-kill-social-transformation?akid=10164.227380.KVqSuU&rd=1&src=newsletter806878&t=21

...I am not going to delve into the many accomplishments of the Bolivarian process with regard to healthcare, life expectancy and education – even if no country in the world has improved living standards as much over the past 14 years as Venezuela under Chávez. Nor will I write about how Chávez shifted hemispheric relations, helped to bring the Free Trade Area of the Americas to an end and built Latin American and Caribbean unity for the first time without the US or Canada. Many articles and writers focus on these matters.

Instead, this article addresses the different approach to social transformation in Venezuela, the idea of revolution as a process and the primacy of the constituent power, which has been developed from below in the form of popular power throughout the country. Chávez was an ally in the construction of people’s power and creative building of a new world. This is the reason that while I am so sad about the passing of Chavez, I am also totally confident about the future of Venezuela. As with the people of Venezuela, I know where the power is. In the neighbourhoods, in the towns, villages and cities, organized together....I have no doubt that people's power will expand. The most important experience people have had over the past 14 years in Venezuela was that they learned they can overcome their marginalization by participation and self organization, creating their own solutions. “We are all Chávez.”

WITH FINGERS CROSSED AND HEARTS IN MOUTHS, WE SHALL SEE...