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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Block committees sound alarm in Venezuela
According to the official charter of the Fifth Republic Movement, the political committees are called Networks of People's Power.
The leadership of Chavez's movement comprises an array of radical leftists, nationalists and military hard-liners.
The movement has surged on a wave of discontent among those who feel that the political system is unresponsive to the majority of Venezuela's 24 million people.
www.fiu.edu /~fcf/bloccommitteesven.html   (735 words)

  
  Fifth Republic Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fifth Republic Movement (Spanish: Movimiento V [Quinta] República, MVR) is a left-wing political party in Venezuela.
The First Republic, known as the "Venezuelan Confederation" lasted until 1830, at which point the country became "Republic of Venezuela." In 1864 the country was then restructured into the "United States of Venezuela," and then back into the Republic of Venezuela in 1953.
Since Chavez's election to the Presidency in 1999, the country has been known as the "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela," signaling Chavez' desires to usher in a new era of politics and government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fifth_Republic_Movement   (448 words)

  
 Movement for the Fifth Republic --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Although the MVR was formally established in 1998, it traces its roots to the Bolivarian Movement 200 (Movimiento Bolivariano–200), which was established secretly within the military in the 1980s.
It was the direct successor to the Gaullist coalitions, operating under various names over the years, that had dominated the political life of the Fifth Republic under presidents de Gaulle (1958–69) and Georges Pompidou (1969–74).
The formal name for the disease is erythema infectiosum, which means “infectious redness.”; The name fifth disease was applied to the condition because it was the fifth pink-red infectious rash of childhood to be described.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9389359   (836 words)

  
 Venezuela POLITICAL PARTIES
All of these movements were denounced by the AD, and in 1962 the MIR and PCV were barred from political activity.
Chávez's Fifth Republic Movement is the largest party in Venezuela but it is a highly personalist party and few expect it to survive beyond Chávez's political career.
For all practical matters, the only party that exists in Venezuela as of mid 2003 is Chávez's Fifth Republic with the rest of the political spectrum being highly fractionalized.
www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/Venezuela-POLITICAL-PARTIES.html   (796 words)

  
 Venezuela and the Popular Movement, printer friendly
He has always been connected with Venezuela’s popular movements and is the author of a book on the Caracazo, the rebellion and riots of February 1989.
While the revolutionary movement made an impressive leap in those days—we should not forget that it was the popular movements that defeated the 47- hour dictatorship of Pedro Carmona—the state has assumed a more conservative position since then.
In the past 18 months the popular movement defeated the right twice and in the armed forces at least there is a considerable sector that would resist an extreme right-wing offensive.
zmagsite.zmag.org /Oct2003/zelikpr1003.html   (2921 words)

  
 French Fifth Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fifth Republic is the fifth and current republican constitution of France, which was introduced on October 5, 1958.
The Fifth Republic emerged from the ashes of the French Fourth Republic, replacing a parliamentary government with a semi-presidential system.
Given the runoff voting system used in the presidential election, the president of the Republic has a high degree of legitimacy, since he or she has to obtain a majority at either the first or second round of elections.
www.search.com /reference/French_Fifth_Republic   (432 words)

  
 Venezuela - Political Flags - Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The second republic (1813-1814) from Bolivar's "Admirable Campaign" to the social rebellion against the Republic; the third Republic (1821-1830), from the Cucuta Convention to the break-up of the Republic of Colombia.
Then there was the Fourth Republic (1830-1998), which began with the "repudiation" of Simon Bolivar and lasted until the end of the forty years of democratic regime, in 1998.
The MAS, founded on 1973, fundamentally was originated by a rupture of the PCV (Communist Party of Venezuela), after which then Communist Youth was rebelled as opposed to the "stalinism" of the old guard, criticizing the repression to the "Prague's Spring" on 1968.
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 Fervor Fading Over Venezuela's Chavez--trucking in "supporters" giving marathon speeches [Free Republic]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The new movement has the same name as an underground group Chavez led as a lieutenant colonel in the 1980s - and used in 1992 to spearhead an unsuccessful coup that catapulted him to national fame.
The Fifth Republic's inexperience was most obvious when it failed to seize control of opposition-aligned trade unions, an objective Chavez considered a cornerstone of his revolution.
This year's Fifth Republic May Day parade was a bust, barely filling two city blocks and vanishing when Chavez failed to appear.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b25296d3822.htm   (983 words)

  
 Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference
Upon his release, Chávez reconstituted the MBR-200 as the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR—Movimiento Quinta República, with the V representing the Roman numeral five).
Chávez and his followers described their aim as "laying the foundations of a new republic" to replace the existing one, which they cast as "party-dominated"; the current constitution, they argued, was no more than the 'juridico-political embodiment of puntofijismo,' the country's traditional two-party patronage system.
Finally, after opposition leaders submitted to the CNE a valid petition with 2,436,830 signatures that requested a presidential recall referendum, a recall referendum was announced on June 8, 2004 by the CNE.
www.clintongoveas.com /wikipedia/?title=Hugo_Chavez   (8552 words)

  
 Spero News | Bar Talk: French Fifth Republic gasping for breath
It is, at the very least, a consequence of the Fifth Republic, which was itself a consequence of the other four republics, and monarchies and Empires etc. etc.
However, the Fifth Republic was tailored specifically for President de Gaulle, and nobody has really worn it well since.
Fifth, there must be a genuine effort, brokered by the government, to promote integration and assimilation.
www.speroforum.com /site/article.asp?idCategory=34&idsub=127&id=2154   (3633 words)

  
 Chavez, Hugo --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
His Fifth Republic Movement and its allies captured 20 of the 22 governorships, as well as the office of mayor in metropolitan Caracas.
The president's Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) and its ally, the Movement to Socialism...
The constitution of 1961 declares Venezuela a federal republic with “autonomous states,” but in fact nearly all power is held by the national government.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9342056?tocId=9342056   (701 words)

  
 Venezuela 2003 - Chapte II
This could mean the denying one of the social movements with the greatest impact, permanence, and professionalism in Venezuela the right to contribute to the independence and selection of those public authorities.
Republic of Venezuela, and the national and international headquarters where records related to the Bolivarian Circles are to be kept is the Miraflores Palace
Republic of Venezuela, public prosecutor’s office, the office of the People’s Defender, or any other authority with competence in the matter.
www.cidh.oas.org /countryrep/Venezuela2003eng/chapter2.htm   (3123 words)

  
 Venezuela and the Popular Movement Raul Zelik interviews Roland Denis
Roland Denis was a grassroots organizer during the 1980s in the leftist movement known as 'Popular Disobedience'.
While the revolutionary movement made an impressive leap in those days-we should not forget that it was the popular movements that defeated the 47hour dictatorship of Pedro Carmona-the state has assumed a more conservative position since then.
In the words of the opposition: "One must exterminate the Chavista sickness." For them this does not mean to exterminate ideas or to defeat a project at the ballot boxes, but to physically eliminate its protagonists.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /South_America/Venezuela_PopularMovement.html   (2949 words)

  
 Venezuela’s New Constitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By the time his movement was ready to launch the 1992 coup, it had decided to focus on the convocation of a constitutional assembly.
This plan was so definite that Chávez’ political party was called the “Fifth Republic Movement” (Movimiento Quinta Republica, or MVR — the “V” meaning the Roman number 5), as a signal that with a new constitution Venezuela would be beginning the fifth republic of its history, since the country’s founding in 1811.
As for the fifth state power, the electoral, is constituted by the national electoral council, which regulates and watches over proper electoral procedures.
www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1003   (6298 words)

  
 Venezuela’s promising future, by Renaud Lambert
The Fifth Republic Movement that brought Chávez to power is not a political party.
After 1994 (3) it grew out of a coalition of leftwing parties and former guerrilla movements disgruntled with their leaders, who some thought settled too comfortably into the society they had struggled against.
A small poster explains that communal councils “are a push for participative democracy, for assisting social movements in their quest for solutions to collective problems and paying back the nation’s social debt”.
mondediplo.com /2006/09/13venezuela   (1960 words)

  
 Venezuela - Political Flags - Part 1
The second republic (1813-1814) from Bolivar's "Admirable Campaign" to the social rebellion against the Republic; the third Republic (1821-1830), from the Cucuta Convention to the break-up of the Republic of Colombia.
Then there was the Fourth Republic (1830-1998), which began with the "repudiation" of Simon Bolivar and lasted until the end of the forty years of democratic regime, in 1998.
The MAS, founded on 1973, fundamentally was originated by a rupture of the PCV (Communist Party of Venezuela), after which then Communist Youth was rebelled as opposed to the "stalinism" of the old guard, criticizing the repression to the "Prague's Spring" on 1968.
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/ve}.html   (3139 words)

  
 Hugo Chávez - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As the leader of the "Bolivarian Revolution", Chávez is known for his democratic socialist governance, his promotion of Latin American integration and anti-imperialism, and his radical criticism of neoliberal globalization and United States foreign policy.
Upon his release, Chávez immediately reconstituted the MBR-200 as the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR—Movimiento Quinta República, with the V representing the Roman numeral five).
It also increased the presidential term of office from five to six years, introduced a presidential two-term limit, and introduced provisions for national presidential recall referenda—that is, Venezuelan voters gained the right to remove the president from office before the expiration of his presidential term.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hugo_Chavez   (8929 words)

  
 Venezuela: From the Dinosaurs to a Single Party
On the opposition field, something quite similar is happening, with the emergence of multiple right-wing organizations that cover a wide range of trends, many of whom are focused on separating themselves from the elitist and corrupt past of the political dinosaurs.
Chavez re-election bid is supported by more than 20 political organizations besides his Fifth Republic Movement, which remains being a movement, more than a political party in the traditional concept.
Based on the criteria that the Fifth Republic Movement is about to have accomplished its historic task and that the country needs a strong and unifying party to undertake new challenges amidst the threats of the United States, Chavez has proposed the creation of a single party for 2007, bringing together the revolutionary forces.
www.periodico26.cu /english/opinion/venez092006.htm   (652 words)

  
 Venezuela's coup d’état | www.vcrisis.com | printer friendly version
The military sector that spoke out against the President of the Republic, along with a group of civilians, constituted the self-appointed "Government of Democratic Transition and National Unity,"[57] and in the face of the claimed vacancy of presidential authority, they proclaimed the principal representative of the Confederation of Chambers and Associations of Commerce (Fedecámaras), Mr.
Also notable is the case of Tarek Wiliam Saab, a National Assemblyman of the Fifth Republic Movement Party, who was arrested by the political police (DISIP) without a warrant and was rescued by the Municipal Police of Hatillo after a group of people, presumably from the opposition, surrounded his residence threatening his personal safety.
Among those specifically accused in relation to events of April 11 are Henry Atencio and Rafael Cabrices, both leaders of the Fifth Republic Movement; Richard Peñalver, Councilman of the Fifth Republic Movement; Nicholás Creek, a Radio Perola host and journalist were, among others, accused of firing shots from the Llaguno Bridge.
www.vcrisis.com /print.php?content=letters/200403200620   (1682 words)

  
 Ethics probe targets Venezuelan judges - The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court, with 20 magistrates, is divided into several chambers that rule on different areas of law.
Chavez's Fifth Republic Movement party has appealed the ruling to the constitutional chamber, whose magistrates are considered mostly government sympathizers.
But the effort is unlikely to prevail because the Fifth Republic Movement lacks the two-thirds majority needed to oust the magistrates.
www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2004/03/18/ethics_probe_targets_venezuelan_judges   (489 words)

  
 Marxism, parliament and the Venezuelan Revolution - Venezuela after the elections: What now?
But this in turn was merely a reflection of the movement of the revolutionary masses in Paris, who continually intervened to purge the Assembly, eliminating the right wing, compromising and vacillating elements and replacing them with more energetic, determined and revolutionary leaders.
In the Fourth Republic parliamentary elections were a mere game to create the illusion that the people had a choice and could determine the political life of the nation once every few years.
The heterogeneous nature of the movement means that, alongside honest fighters, there are all kinds of bureaucrats, careerists and corrupt elements who have attached themselves to the Chavista movement as a temporary manoeuvre for personal gain.
www.marxist.com /parliament-venezuelan-revolution191205.htm   (6031 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Latin America
The Fifth Republic Movement, which was founded by Chavez, has until 6 p.m.
The Fifth Republic Movement is targeting many of Chavez's most strident foes, including Deputy Liliana Hernandez from the Justice First Party, and Deputy Leopoldo Puchi, who heads the Movement Towards Socialism Party.
Fifth Republic Movement Deputy Dario Vivas said that 500,000 volunteers would be manning 1,935 petition centers nationwide, or going door-to-door soliciting voters.
quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=awvU9XExReOk&refer=latin_america   (627 words)

  
 Venezuela and Colombia: Two brother peoples that are resisting : LA IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Our people were assassinated in the streets of Caracas, the leaders of the popular movement were persecuted, harassed, some were taken prisoner, others tortured, and a big wave of police raids was unleashed all around the city.
We have revolutionary reserves for a long resistance because the problem is not if Chavez goes or if he stays; the problem is that the entire poor, marginalized, excluded people who in a short time have raised their level of political consciousness and are prepared to stake their lives because there is no turning back.
He was betrayed by the military men who had his closest confidence, his Fifth Republic Movement, with a few exceptions, were caught in Miquelena’s nets, his directors are repeating the bureaucratic, patronage-based and corrupt practices of Puntofijismo, and have separated themselves completely from the people and their interests.
la.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=24105   (921 words)

  
 Index Ch
Together with allies from the army, he established the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) as the electoral heir to the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement (MBR-200) that organized the 1992 coup attempt.
This power-sharing arrangement, known as cohabitation, was the first of its kind in the history of the Fifth Republic, in which previously the president and the prime minister had always belonged to the same party or the same electoral coalition.
He was active in the Soviet human rights movement and was ousted from a newspaper in 1966 for refusing to testify at a political trial.
www.rulers.org /indexc2.html   (18093 words)

  
 Inter Press Service News Agency
After he cast his vote on Sunday, the president called for a new opposition to emerge, and praised the small opposition groups and individuals who took part in the elections, while stating that perhaps the old opposition parties "deep down are hastening their own death."
Less than four million voters took part in the elections Sunday, and tens of thousands of ballots were annulled because they were cast in favour of candidates from one of the opposition parties that had pulled out of the race.
Meanwhile, the Fifth Republic Movement and its allies won in every voting district, with 90 percent of the valid votes in some cases.
www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=31303   (1053 words)

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