Orinoco Tribune 5th Anniv.: Venezuela 1999 Constituent Assembly Resistance, Achievements and Lessons
Channel: Orinoco Tribune
Date: 2023-11-30

Venezuela: 1999 Constituent Assembly 
Resistance, Achievements and Lessons

When: Wed, Nov 29 at 8pm (EST)
Where: YouTube Live (https://youtube.com/live/P6HZzD0b6bI)


This webinar is intended to provide clarity to international audiences about the complexity of the process leading to the 1999 Constituent Assembly, the obstacles that had to be overcome to reach it, the constituent process itself and the errors/lessons of the process in light of the 2007 Constitutional Reform proposal.

The Venezuelan constituent process has been an inspiration not only in Latin America, recently in Chile and Peru, but in many other regions of the world, many idealize it but do not know in detail the complexity of the process, and others have not evaluated the errors or lessons that could have made it even more effective in terms of achieving a more just and socialist society.

This is a YouTube live webinar, likely with simultaneous translation in English and Spanish, with a duration of 90 minutes in total: 50 minutes for presentation, 10 minutes for opening and closing remarks and 30 minutes for questions and answers.

The webinar consists of three easily identifiable parts:

1- The process to reach the Constituent Assembly: legal and political resistance that had to be overcome.
2- The Constituent Assembly: its complexity and democratic spirit and also the resistance that had to be overcome to reach a successful conclusion.
3- The errors and lessons: that could serve as a reference in other latitudes to shield aspired constituent processes or those currently being built.
4- The 2007 Constitutional Amendments.