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“Chevron: The Bolivarian connection” is a report that the fabulous business expansion of transnational energy under the so called “Socialism of the XXI Century”, doubling its presence in Venezuela after the electoral victory of Hugo Chavez. Away from the propaganda that talks about “energy sovereignty” and “eco-socialism”, the country has deepened the role assigned by economic globalization: Insurance provider and reliable raw materials to the world energy market, regardless of the environmental and social consequences of the expansion of the extractive activity.
“Chevron: The Bolivarian connection” is a report that the fabulous business expansion of transnational energy under the so called “Socialism of the XXI Century”, doubling its presence in Venezuela after the electoral victory of Hugo Chavez. Away from the propaganda that talks about “energy sovereignty” and “eco-socialism”, the country has deepened the role assigned by economic globalization: Insurance provider and reliable raw materials to the world energy market, regardless of the environmental and social consequences of the expansion of the extractive activity.
Why a
report about Chevron in Venezuela?
May 21st is
the day various social movements from around the world have chosen to stage a
planetary day of action against Chevron. The objective is to demand that the
United States- based oil company modifies its practices and admits
responsibility for the serious crimes it has committed all over the planet
during its history.
Venezuela
has the largest oil and gas reserves of the region and has had a long-lived
relationship with Chevron. Nevertheless, the ecological and social consequences
of energy exploitation in Venezuela are not discussed, neither is the
responsibility for the contamination and displacement of indigenous and peasant
communities incurred by transnational companies which, since 1996 and following
the industry's nationalization in 1976, participate as business partners [with
the state]. This omission is in part due to Bolivarian government propaganda
which uses the term "energy sovereignty" to describe the policy of associating,
for periods of between 20 and 40 years, with companies like Chevron.
President
Chavez called his project "socialista petrolero" [the oil worker
socialist] and in his proposed plan for government, Plan Patria 2013 - 2019, he
defined as an objective increasing oil production to 6 million barrels per day
by the year 2019 and natural gas to 11,947 million cubic feet daily by the same
year. By 2013, production was 3.7 3.7 million barrels of oil/day and 7 million
cubic feet of gas/day. These objectives have been assumed by president Nicolas
Maduro, requiring ever more and ever greater alliances with companies such as
Chevron. The development model promoted by Bolivarianism is no different to
those of previous governments: that being, to deepen the extractivist and
primary resource-exporting character of
the Venezuelan economy.
The
eco-anarchist critique of energy exploitation in this country is not limited to
demanding that the state's PDVSA be "controlled by its workers" or
that companies such as Chevron leave Venezuela. Our vision is much grander;
including the need to collectively build proposals for development beyond
extraction that are both environmentally sustainable and socially just, as well
as promoting individual freedom. Therefore we hope that this kind of document
will stimulate debate and discussions along these lines.
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