Cargill, Oligopolies and the Blockade of Venezuela
Cargill, one of the main corporations of Venezuela’s agro-industrial sector which, announced the sale of all its Venezuelan assets, a liquidation that will allegedly take several months to be...
The Ghost of "Castro/Chavismo" Returns to Colombia
Two years before the next presidential elections in Colombia, the largest Colombian newspaper ran a headline a few days ago: “Plan from Venezuela to affect elections in Colombia investigated,” and,...
Let’s Tell Lies…
In the Spanish-speaking world, there is a very peculiar children’s song: “Let’s Tell Lies”. Through the hilarious repetition of verses and a catchy melody, there is a succession of absurd situations...
El Conuco: Against the Global Environmental Crisis
The notion of “conuquera” is based on an ecosystemic vision in which everyone and everything is interrelated, and a culture that seeks to bring together what capital fragments. Not only is it...
The Venezuelan Conuquera Seed Signifies a Struggle for Identity and Resistance
The conuco as a system and concept brings with it the care and multiplication of seeds of traditional and new items. Life, culture, knowledge, health, traditional agricultural systems and even the...