Bolivarian Circles

The Bolivarian Circles, with 2.2 million members, are the backbone of the democratic revolution unfolding in Venezuela. After the attempted US-backed coup against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on April 11, 2002, the Bolivarian Circles helped organise the uprising that reinstated the pro-poor president. The Bolivarian Circles have also organised mass resistance against the corporate managers' and corrupt union officials' attempt to destroy the country's oil industry. 

The CBs (Bolivarian Circles) are now organizing themselves into Bolivarian Houses (Casas Bolivarianas). This new structure seeks to unify the efforts of the Circles, along with various other civil society associations, in order to tackle complex issues that are regional, national or even international in character. 
 * CB literature describes Bolivarian Houses as "community spaces for meetings, interchanges, articulation, unity and fortification of the organizations, movements, and institutions linked to the construction and consolidation of popular power and oriented in the defense, construction, and development of the proposed project of the country and the new society described by the Constitution."

Website: circulosbolivarianos.org

SourceWatch Resources

 * Alternativa Bolivariana para las Américas

External Resources

 * The true meaning of our Venezuelan Bolivarian Circles, 20 April 2003, Alvaro Sanchez