Venezuela: Eyewitness impressions of the Bolivarian revolution

October 25, 2012 – Green Left TV – Several European activists participated in the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN) brigade to Venezuela in September-October 2012, which witnessed the presidential election won convincingly by socialist President Hugo Chavez.

Brigade participant Pip Hinman spoke in Caracas to Christian, a writer and activist with the German solidarity online publication Amerika21.de, about his impressions of the Bolivarian revolution. Film footage of the 3 million-strong October 4, 2012, Chavista election rally provided by Poul-Erik Jørgensen, a Danish participant in the brigade.