Statement in defense of Venezuela by the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity

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In response to the request of intellectuals against the Bolivarian process in Venezuela
. Under the implicit "I accuse" formula and a few hours before the Organization of American States, OAS, meeting in which the intervention Venezuela would be once again discussed, more than a hundred Latin American, European and American intellectuals and academics recently signed a petition entitled "Urgent international effort to stop the escalation of violence in Venezuela.” This request constitutes a declaration of principles of its position regarding the Bolivarian situation, developing diagnoses, attributing responsibilities and prescribing an exit to the crisis that takes place in the South American country. We will not offend the intelligence or morale of the subscribers (some true "sacred cows" of the critical academic world) by questioning their political commitment or their interpretive powers. We will assume each statement of the requested as what it is, as an erroneous thesis on the the Bolivarian process of Venezuela. And as such, we will submit it to analysis, realizing that also the prosecutors can and should be accused. Also, intellectuals, as well as pontificating from the high heights of the academies, must account for their successes and their errors in this dramatic continental impasse, which may well mean the conservative closure of an ascending political cycle, or the backwater before a possible second wave of the progressive left in the region. A defeat of the Latin American popular classes will not stop peppering intellectuals in their organic abstention, in their pedagogical incapacity, or in their misunderstandings when it comes to calibrating accurate judgments. 
The concept of "fourth-generation war" or "low-intensity warfare" is much more than a hyperbole to signal the intensity of a specific situation. It is the description of a whole insurrectional strategy of U.S. imperialism to gnaw on the hardest jewel in the crown: the striving for a Venezuelan revolution which, as has been done by Cuba, again threatens the U.S. in its backyard. Even more so if we consider the vital economic and geopolitical importance of Venezuela for the recent Republican Party administration of President Donald Trump. Venezuela has been able to reconnect with progressive and leftist experiences and has tightened them with a bold policy of Latin American integration, as well as their sovereign control over important strategic resources so dear to the development projects of the countries, such as oil or biodiversity. Only Venezuela, midwife of this new historical cycle, can, with its fall, seal its irremediable closure. The United States has understood this, but some of our most prestigious scholars haven't. Venezuela seems to be in the precise and painful transit between two stages analyzed by Antonio Gramsci in his analysis of force correlations (that is, in the analysis of the degree of organization, self-consciousness and homogeneity reached by antagonistic social groups). Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has long moved effectively from a merely economic-corporate moment to a political moment, with the formation of a popular identity common to all the popular classes (Chavismo) and its global confrontation with the ruling classes. The failed 2002 coup, the disrupted oil strike and the assumption of a socialism for the 21st Century led to this path. However, this political moment up to 2013, and its consequent hegemonic tie between social blocs, began to crumble with the death of former President Hugo Chavez and was consummated with the closing of the international siege after the electoral defeat of Kirchnerism in Argentina and with the institutional blow to former President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil. The third moment analyzed by Gramsci, the inevitable political-military moment to which we are precipitating, was, paradoxically, reached not only by the endogenous radicalization of chavismo, but also by the emboldened reaction of a local and transnational right willing to seek revenge. Now, the analysis of this political-military moment, implies that the opposition “guarimbas,” the assassination of chavistas in the countryside and in the city, the incessant infiltration of Colombian paramilitaries, the formation of Bolivarian militias, the strengthening of the military wing incarnated in Diosdado Cabello and the military patrol of the Venezuelan coasts by the emerging powers, are much more than testimony to the overflowing Caribbean passion. They are symptoms of an entire stage that merits specific categories of analysis to understand the militaristic radicalization of U.S. imperialism in its long but irrepressible global decline. In our view, ignoring the dimension of this process leads to superficial analyzes that suspect authoritarian drifts, presumed self-coups, or idle militarization of the political class of Latin American governments. Always under the optics of intellectuals prone to describe "deficit" of democracy in these latitudes, always with the bar of Eurocentric conceptions and supposedly universal about what is to be democratic. Of course, there is a process of militarization and escalation of violence, but far from being the result of internal factors, this militarization is permanently induced by imperialist aggression at all levels (diplomatic, political, economic, military, media, financial). Or should we mention the coups in Honduras, Paraguay and Brazil that preceded the present onslaught? The coarse theories of the two demons to analyze the causes of Venezuelan violence are worthless: what does the "complex and shared origin of violence" mean? Or the apparently symmetrical identification of right-wing extremists and left-wing totalitarians, which ends at the end of the text in the signaling of a single and unprecedented person responsible for violence: the state and the Bolivarian government! Precisely the ones who insist on a peaceful strategy! What should have been done, according to these intellectuals, in a situation like the one Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolutionaries faced before the invasion of Playa Giron? Bow down to politicians with non-existent diplomats while the bombs thundered in the Bay of Pigs? To face the mercenary rifles with ballot papers? To petition cautiously before the OAS? The most elementary of critical analyzes must be able to separate the straw from the wheat, to distinguish the founding violence and the mere reactive violence of the classes and the popular governments, and to understand, like Gramsci, that there is no peaceful or democratic (in the strictly liberal sense of the term) resolution to the class struggle. Sooner or later, the ruling classes, in their electoral impotence, will resort to soft blows commanded by judicial or media corporations, and when these also prove useless, they will again sound the hour of the sword. The so-called "beyond polarization" perspective is a vain attempt see the reality behind the fog of a political struggle, and it proves impossible. Gramsci explains it as "taking sides,” which does not mean blindly supporting a political process or its eventual conduct, but rather choosing the field from which criticism is enunciated and which specific tasks of intellectual praxis will be embraced. The "organic" intellectual is not a model of a leftist intellectual, but the only one in the strict sense: that is, one that reflects together, side by side, without the mediation of hateful pedestals, with organized popular subjects. It is not surprising that a petition signed by academics of such a high standard dispenses with the most elementary categories of analysis of the critical political arsenal, giving ground with the attempt to found a certain characterization about the Bolivarian process. Neither social classes, nor structural dependency, nor imperialism, are even mentioned in the letter, while these are tools that any Venezuelan commoner has long incorporated into their political vocabulary, in what constitutes another facet of a process of radical democratization and socialization of power. Instead, we believe there is a remarkable fetishization of democracy in its liberal formats. What other conception of democracy is it possible to judge as anti-democratic a process that fights a national assembly in contempt for oathing elected representatives in a fraudulent manner, and that has attempted, without constitutional powers to do so, to try to depose Maduro four times, which undoubtedly constitutes attempts at a coup, but which, nevertheless, fully supports it? How can an undemocratic drift be detected in a process that still actively mobilizes hundreds of thousands of people and which supports and expands qualitative democratic elements such as communes and communal councils? Where are the authoritarian elements of a government that responds to institutional aggression and street violence with the most outstanding answer, with a re-constituent call that respects the radicalism of a process long stalled by external siege and internal errors? To return to the historicizing of democracy, to split the ideal of its imperfect institutional realizations, see its formal elements as unsacred and to understand its new emergent modalities, it is essential not to fall prey to a liberal-republican and, in a word, colonial valuation, about what is democratic. Moreover, we believe that even from a consistent liberal view, it is possible to criticize the Bolivarian process, like no other project, knew how to take, deepen and radicalize formal liberal democracy with absolutely unpublished consultative, plebiscitarian and revocatory mechanisms.

There is no pure democracy, democracy apart from history and class struggle, national, ethnic and sex-generic determinations of the political struggle. There is, or will be, democracy of the workers, peasants, the poor, Indigenous people, Afro-descendants, students, migrants, retirees and women. And this will only be conquered when the interests of the popular classes impose themselves: whether it will be by good or bad, by customary or violent methods, by electoral means or through a painful civil war, will be decided as always, those who have everything to lose, but also everything to gain in Venezuela and in the whole of Our America.

Germany:

-       Rainer Schlittgen, Prof. em. Universidad Hamburgo

-       Ricarda Schlittgen, Berlin

 

Argentina:

-       Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

-       Stella Calloni, periodista

-       Lautaro Rivara

-       Gonzalo Armúa, Alba Movimientos

-       Claudio Katz, profesor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires e investigador del CONICET

-       Manuel Bertoldi - Patria Grande Argentina

-       Telma Luzzani. periodista

-       Carlos Aznárez, periodista,

-       Santiago Liaudat. docente investigador. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Argentina

-       Movimiento Proyecto Popular – Argentina

-       Gabriel Impaglione-  Argentina-, Italia.

-       Alicia Castro, ex embajadora argentina en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y ante el Reino Unido

-       Escuela de formación política José Carlos Mariátegui

-       Fernando Vicente Prieto, periodista (Argentina)

-       Esteban Diotallevi

-       Aldo Casas, antropólogo, revista Herramienta.

-       Guillermo Cieza, escritor, militante popular, Argentina

-       ATTAC Argentina

-       Atilio Borón

-       Nora Ciapponi, FPDS-Corriente Nacional

-       Sebastián Salgado, Periodista

-       Hebe Livio

-       Sergio Zeta, Contrahegemoníaweb

-       Fernando Bossi, periodista, director Portal Alba

-       Horacio Cerutti

-       Federico Nacif

-       Martín Ogando, docente e investigador de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

-       Teodoro Pablo Lecman, Poeta, Profesor y Doctor en Psicología UNBA. Argentina

-       Gabo Sequeira. Trovador. Argentina

-       José Seoane. Profesor e investigador de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales – UBA. Grupo de Estudios sobre América Latina y el Caribe - GEAL

-       Paula Klachko. Lic. en Sociología UBA. Dra. en Historia UNLP. Prof. UNDAV-UNPAZ

-       Nestor Kohan. (Universidad De Buenos Aires) 

-       Roberto Elisalde. RIOSAL/CTA-A

-       Jorge Cardelli   Sec. De Cultura De La Cta Autònoma

-       Patricia Machado  Usina Cultural Del Sur

-       Sergio Nicanoff Historiador Docente Uba

-       Fernando Bargas. Emancipación Sur - CABA

-       Mariano Féliz / investigador/ profesor universitario

 

Australia:

-       Federico Fuentes, periodista.

-       Australian Solidarity with Latin America (Solidaridad Australiana con América Latina, ASLA), Brisbane

-       Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network (Red de Solidaridad Australia-Venezuela, AVSN)

-       Chile Solidarity Campaign (Campaña de Solidaridad con Chile), Melbourne

-       Colombia Demand Justice Campaign (Campaña Colombia Reclama Justicia)

-       Committee for Human Rights in Chile (Comité por los Derechos Humanos en Chile), Sydney

-       Committee for Human Rights in Guatemala (Comité por los Derechos Humanos en Guatemala), Sydney

-       Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberación Nacional (FMLN) Committee, Sydney

-       Latin America Social Forum (Foro Social Latinoamericano), Sydney

-       Latin American Solidarity Network (Red de Solidaridad Latinoamericano, LASNET)

-       Grupo Mapuche Mawida, Sydney

-       Mapuche Aboriginal Solidarity for Indigenous Land (MASIL, Solidaridad Mapuche Aborigine por las Tierras Indigenas), Melbourne

-       Mapuche Australia Solidarity (Solidaridad Mapuche Australia)

-       United for Colombia (Unidos por Colombia)

-       Australia Cuba Friendship Society (Sociedad de Amistad Australia-Cuba), Western Australia

-       Dra Eulalia Reyes de Whitney, profesora venezolana (viviendo en Brisbane, Australia)

-        Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (Campaña Solidaridad con Venezuela, Melbourne)

 

Belgium:

-       Alex Anfruns, Investig’action

 

Bolivia:

-       Jorge Mansilla Torres

-       Rebeca Peralta Mariñelarena, México-Bolivia. 

 

Brazil:

-       Emir Sader

-       Joao Pedro Stedile. MST

-       Gabriel E. Vitullo - Doctor en Ciencia Política, profesor de la Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

-       Carlos Eduardo Martins – UFRJ

-       Elder Andrade de Paula

-       Sirio Lopez. Velasco, Filosofo

-       Monica Bruckmann

-       Theotonio dos Santos

-       Alexis Benavides

-       Julio Gambina, Fundación de investigaciones sociales y políticas, Presidente de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Economía Política y Pensamiento Crítico (SEPLA).

-       Marcelo Díaz Carcanholo, Universidad Federal Fluminense, Presidente de la Sociedad de Economía Política de Brasil (SEP)

-       Antonio Elías, Universidad de la República, Vicepresidente de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Economía Política y Pensamiento Crítico (SEPLA).

-       Roberto Ponciano - CUT e PT Brasil.

-       Paola Estrada, ALBA Movimientos Brasil

-       Humberto Farías

-       Sec. Nacional / MPA

-       Maria Luiza Franco Busse- Jornalista, Brasil

-       André Takahashi - Sociólogo e militante brasileiro

-       Vanessa Martina Silva, jornalista

-       Maria Claudia Badan Ribeiro - investigadora (Brasil). Doutora em Hist. Social USP e Pos Doutora (IHEAL/Unicamp)

-       Carlos Eugênio Paz - Brasil (Escritor, musico, ex-militante da Ação Libertadora Nacional , ALN)

 

Canada:

-       Arnold August, autor y periodista, miembro de la RED (Canadá)

 

Chile:

-       Francisco Villa, Músico – trovador

-       Oscar Saavedra, poeta (Chile)

-       Ximena de la Barra, Arquitecto, Cientista Social Chileno/Española.

 

Colombia:

-       Hernando Calvo

-       Aida Julieta Quiñones Torres, profesora Facultad de Comunicación, Pontificia universidad Javeriana

-       Gustavo Pinzón - Conacoms, Núcleo Colombia

-       Fernando Rendón

-       Gabriel Jaime Franco, poeta (Colombia)

-       Gloria Chvatal, pintura (Colombia)

-       Jairo Guzmán, poeta (Colombia)

-       Edgar Montañez, cineasta (Colombia)

-       Álvaro Marín, poeta (Colombia)

-       Winston Porras, pintor (Colombia)

-       Zabier Hernández, académico (Colombia)

-       Wilfrido Jimenez, músico (Colombia)

-       Rafael Quiroz, pintor (Colombia)

-       Beatriz Ortega, comunicadora audiovisual (Colombia)

-       Sofía de la Hoz, periodista (Colombia)

-       Sergio Serrano - Fotógrafo – Colombia

-       María fernanda sañudo, Profesora universidad javeriana, Colombia

 

Costa Rica:

-       Ronald Bonill Carvajal, poeta, Costa Rica

 

Cuba:

-       Roberto Fernández Retamar, Casa de las Américas

-       Casa de las Américas

-       Isabel Monal, Filósofa

-       Eloísa Xóchitl Le Riverend Morales  Investigadora, traductora

-       Enrique Ubieta Gómez, ensayista y periodista (Cuba)

-       Omar González, escritor y periodista. Coordinador REDH-Cuba.

-       Waldo Leyva

-       Vicente Feliú, trovador,

-       Gloria Teresita  Almaguer González, investigadora del Centro de Política Internacional, del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba.

-       Rev. Raúlñ Suárez Ramos, Director-Fundador del CEntgro memorial Dr. Martin Luther King r,

-       Graziella Pogolotti. Escritora.

 

Ecuador:

-       François Houtart, Profesor en el Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (I.A.E.N.)

-       Maria Augusta Calle

-       Francisco Peralta - Conacoms, Núcleo Ecuador

-       Organización Bulla Zurda

 

El Salvador:

-       Carlos Molina Velásquez, catedrático de filosofía, Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas, El Salvador.

-       Héctor Iván Castro Castaneda, Movimiento Ciudadano 5+

-       Angel Maria Ibarra Turcios, académico y activista ambiental, Viceministro de Medio Ambiente de El Salvador.

-       Luis Alvarenga, poeta salvadoreño.​

 

Spain:

-       Carlos Fernández Liria

-       Salvador López Arnal, profesor y colaborador de Rebelión.org

-       Alejandro Andreassi Cieri, Profesor (jubilado) Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

-       Ángel De La Cruz Bermejo, Profesor / Periodista, Madrid

-       José Luis Martín Ramos, historiador, Barcelona,

-       Manuel Martínez Llaneza. Profesor Titular Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

-       Joaquín Miras Albarrán. Presidente de Espai Marx

-       Antonio Francisco Ordóñez, Jurista (Barcelona)

-       Higinio Polo, profesor y escritor. Barcelona.

-       María Remedios García Albert (Madrid, España)

-       Manuel Pardo de Donlebún Montesino, Militar en la Reserva, miembro del Foro Contra la Guerra Imperialista y la OTAN.

-       Samir Delgado, poeta, Islas Canarias

-       Arantxa Tirado. Politóloga latinoamericanista e internacionalista.

-       Sara Rosenberg - Escritora - (Miembro del Foro contra la guerra imperialista y la OTAN) - Madrid- España.

 

United States:

-       James Cockcroft Author, Lecturer, Poet, Revolutionary

-       Padre Luis Barrios, Ph.D., John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA

-       Dario Azzellini, Murphy Institute, CUNY, New York, USA

-       John Catalinotto, profesor de matemática jubilado, EEUU

-       Sara Flounders, co-director, Centro de Acción Internacional, EEUU

-       Berta Joubert-Ceci, editor, Workers World-Mundo Obrero, EEUU

-       William I. Robinson, Profesor de Sociologia. Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara

-       Ramón Grosfoguel, universidad de California 

-       Jack Hirschman, Revolutionary Poets Brigade, Estados Unidos

-       Agneta Falk, Revolutionary Poets Brigade, Estados Unidos

 

Guatemala:

-       Simona Yagenova, equipo coordinador REDH capítulo Guatemala

-       Mario Sosa, antropólogo, Guatemala.

-       MARCELO COLUSSI, Guatemala, Psicólogo.

-       Carlos Maldonado. Colectivo La Gotera. Guatemala

-       Sandino Asturias, ceg.org.gt

 

Italy:

-       Alessandro Riccio, Gennaro Carotenuto, Marco Consolo

-       Giovanna Mulas, escritora, Italia

-       Gennaro Carotenuto, storico, Napoli

-       Maurizio De Giovanni, scrittore, Napoli

-       Gianni Minà, giornalista, Roma

-       Alessandra Riccio, Docente universitaria, Napoli

-       Christian Raimo, scrittore, Roma

-       Michela Mercuri, docente SIOI, Milano

 

Mexico:

-       Pablo González Casanova, profesor emérito y ex-Rector de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico

-       Raúl Vera López, obispo de Saltillo, México

-       Ana Esther Ceceña, Observatorio Latinoamericano de Geopolítica, UNAM

-       Gilberto López y Rivas, INAH

-       Alicia Castellanos Guerrero, Profesora Investigadora de la UAM-Iztapalapa

-       Edmundo del Pozo Martínez.  Maestro en Derecho por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

-       Fernando Buen Abad. Instituto de Cultura y Comunicación / Universidad Nacional de Lanús.

-       Margarita Favela Gavia, UNAM

-       Enrique González Ruiz, UACM

-       Miguel Socolovsky, Investigador del Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares de la UNAM

-       Enrique González Ruiz, profesor de la UNAM.

-       Diana Tovar, Conacoms, Núcleo México

-       Nayar López Castellanos . Politólogo mexicano, latinoamericanista, profesor investigador de la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM) 

-       Óscar González, Profesor-Investigador de tiempo completo de la UACM, México.

-       Angel Guerra

-       Héctor Díaz Polanco

-       Carlos Fazio, UACM

-       José Miguel Candia (UNAM - México)

-       Miguel Ángel Adame Cerón. Profesor-Investigador de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, INAH-SC México

-       Fernando Sánchez Martínez. Biólogo, Prof. Investigador del Centro INAH Morelos

-       Tatiana Coll socióloga, profesora-investigadora de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y de la UNAM, articulista del periódico La Jornada.

-       Ismael Hernández Lujano Filósofo y sindicalista

-       Sammuel Sosa, Profesor-investigador de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Siciales de la UNAM. 

-       Guillermo Fernández Ampié,  docente, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

-       John Saxe-Fernández, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, UNAM. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales UNAM.

-       Polo Castellanos. Muralista, México

-       Argelia Guerrero Renteria, bailarina, maestra y periodista

-       Jorge Veraza, Premio Libertador

-       Mujeres para el Diálogo. México

-       Lourdes del Villar,

-       Angeles González,

-       Elizabeth Alejandre,

-       Rosa Barranco,

-       Bertha Vallejo,

-       Leonor Aída Concha,

-       Guadalupe Abdó,

-       Graciela Tapia,

-       María Elena Ramírez.

-       Servicio Internacional de Solidaridad con los pueblos de América Latina SICSAL/México.

-       Comite Monseñor Romero, México

-       Leticia Gutiérrez,

-       Gabriela Hernández,

-       Carmen Mendoza,

-       Norberto Pérez,

-       Alfonso Anaya,

-       Hildelisa Preciado,

-       Dalia Ruiz,

-       María Elena López.

-       Movimiento de Solidaridad Nuestra América. México.

-       Walter Martínez,

-       Cristina Steffen,

-       Maricarmen Montes,

-       Claudia Sandoval,

-       Carlos Prigollini,

-       José Miguel Candia.

-       Catalina Eibenschutz  Profesor Distinguido Uam-X, Mexico

-       Xadeni Méndez Márquez -México

-       María Rosa Márquez- México

-       Jorge Méndez Spinola- México

-       Rosa María Cabrera Lotfe- México

-       Enrique Rajchenberg, historiador, UNAM, México

 

Nicaragua:

-       Aldo Díaz Lacayo

-       Giorgio Trucchi, periodista, Italia/Nicaragua

 

Panama:

-       Silvestre Díaz, Secretario de Organización del Frente Amplio por la Democracia (FAD) y Director del Centro de Investigación y Docencia de Panamá (CIDPA)

 

Paraguay:

-       Gustavo Codas, economista, Paraguay

-       Ricardo Flecha, Trovador. Paraguay

-       Techi Cusmanich, Arquitecta. Paraguay

-       Marielle Palau, sociologa, Asunción-Paraguay

 

Peru:

-       Arturo Corcuera. Premio de poesía Casa de las Américas.

-       Héctor Béjar Rivera. Premio de ensayo Casa de las Américas.

-       Hildebrando Pérez Grande. Premio de poesía casa de las Américas.

-       Reynaldo Naranjo. Premio nacional de poesía.

-       Juan Cristóbal. Premio nacional de poesía.

-       Winston Orrillo. Premio nacional de periodismo.

-       José Luis Ayala. Poeta.

-       Delfina Paredes. Actriz nacional.

-       Pilar Roca. Cineasta.

-       Federico García. Cineasta.

-       Rosina Valcárcel. Poeta.

-       Ana María Intili. Poeta.

-       Marcela Pérez Silva. Cantautora.

-       Margot Palomino. Cantautora.

-       Fanny Palacios Izquierdo. Pintora.

-       Bruno Portuguez. Pintor.

-       Gustavo Espinoza. Periodista.

-       Manuel Robles. Periodista.

-       Vicente Otta. Sociólogo.

-       Eduardo Arroyo. Sociólogo.

-       Julio Dagnino.Periodista.

-       Milciades Ruiz. Periodista.

-       Alaín Elías. Escritor.

-       Carlos Ostolaza. Pintor.

-       Feliciano Atoche. Arquitecto

-       Rodolfo Moreno. Poeta.

-       Denis Merino. Periodista.

-       Rosina Valcarcel. Escritora. Colectivo Macondo. Lima, Perú

 

Puerto Rico:

-       Danny Rivera   Artista cantor   

-       Francisco Torres, secretario de organización 

-       Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario de Puerto Rico 

 

Tunisia:

-       Rashid Sherif, Siquiatra, Miembro del Frente Popular

Uruguay:

-       Antonio Elías

Venezuela:

-       Maryclen Stelling.  Socióloga

-       Iraida Vargas-Arenas. Investigadora Nacional Emérita. Premio Nacional de Cultura. Mención Especial de Premio Nacional de Ciencia. Premio Libertadoras y Libertadores de Venezuela. 

-       Mario Sanoja Obediente- Investigador Nacional Emeriito- Premio Nacional de Cultura. Individuo de Número de la Academia Nacional de la Historia de Venezuela.

-       Carmen Bohórquez, Filósofa. Coordinadora General Red En Defensa de la Humanidad

-       Giovanna Proaño Moreno - Consejo Nacional de Comunicadores Socialistas

-       Norberto Bacher

-       Josè Pérez,Poeta, narrador, profesor universitario jubilado. Venezuela

-       Luis Britto García, Escritor. Ensayista, Dramaturgo, Guionista.

-       Sergio Arria, Antropólogo, Centro Universitario para la Información y la Comunicación Sean MacBride/UNla – Idelcoop

-       José Antonio Varela, Cineasta