From Latin American Odyssey, to a profound investigation of the Bolivarian revolution. Hugo Chavez says: Socialism or Death! Leftists rejoice, and Capitalists squeal. But what do the people of Venezuela think about all of this?

In Spring, 2006, Patrik Angstrom Poore spent 5 months in Venezuela working with urban and rural Community radio stations to produce this 5-part listenable essay.   The idea was to meet as many people as possible and find out how Venezuela has changed over the last 8 years of the so-called "Bolivarian Revolution" 

Part 1 Economy
Part 2 Land
Part 3 Media
Part 4 The Missions:  Redistributing Resources and Community Building
Part 5 Socialism of the 21st Century
 

Each piece is about 30 minutes, and has a lead in and lead out for individual airplay. The pieces were produced completely in Spanish first, then dozens of community radio volunteers participated to overlay the voices in English.

Community Radio from start to finish.  Participating in the project from Venezuela:

La Dolorita Comunitaria

Radio Perola

Radio Colectivo de Petare

Radio Negro Primero

AMNCLA - the Association of Community and Alternative Media of Venezuela

This project was sponsored by KBOO and funded in part by a grant from the Funding Exchange's Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media. 

More details about the making of this document http://www.oirnos.blogspot.com/

Reflections on this project and many other  grassroots media solidarity projects are featured in the Winter 2006 issue of the Community Radio Review: 

PAP works with the Bolivarian Media Exchange, who organize locally and internationally through exchanging information and media skills.  check out our tribe to see what we're doing now or get involved:

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hesperus_phosphorus@comcast.net