Venezuela: Workers, farmers face effects of capitalist crisis

By Emily Fitzsimmons
August 18, 2018

Peasants from Barinas, Venezuela, march on Caracas Aug. 8. They demand central government stop judges, capitalist landowners and police from evicting small farmers from land they won when Hugo Chávez was president, as well as release of their leaders who have been jailed, and end to impunity for landowners’ hired thugs who have killed over 350 peasants.

Peasants from Barinas, Venezuela, march on Caracas Aug. 8. They demand central government stop judges, capitalist landowners and police from evicting small farmers from land they won when Hugo Chávez was president, as well as release of their leaders who have been jailed, and end to impunity for landowners’ hired thugs who have killed over 350 peasants.