Webinar: DEFEND Venezuela Against Trump’s Lies and Attacks

Join a webinar hosted by the Anti War Action Network with guest speakers, Blanca Eekhout, President of the Simon Bolivar Institute, and Dozthor Zurlent, Author of Globalization of the Capitalist Crisis.

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Blanca Rosa Eekhout Gómez

Member of the National Assembly of Venezuela and President of the Commission for the Development of Communes; member of the National Directorate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). President of the Simón Bolívar Institute Foundation for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples.

Brief summary of her political career:

Blanca Eekhout was born in Acarigua, Portuguesa state, on January 6, 1968. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the Central University of Venezuela. She dedicated her youth to political activism in Caracas neighborhoods, focusing her activism on grassroots communication, and co-founded Catia TV (2000-2003).

Her commendable dedication to communicating the voice of the people in various spaces led to her being called by Commander Chávez to numerous positions, including the Presidency of VTV (2005); Founder and President of the Venezuelan Telecommunications Corporation S.A., Public Television Vive TV (2003-2010); Minister of Popular Power for Communication and Information (2009); Principal Deputy for the Portuguese State (2011-2016); Second Vice President of the National Assembly (2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014); President of the Permanent Commission of Popular Power and Media of the National Assembly (2014-2015); Head of the Parliamentary Delegation of Parlasur (2014-2015); Member of the board of directors of Parlasur, (2015-2015); Minister of Popular Power for Women and Gender Equality (2016-2018); Minister of Popular Power for Communes and Social Movements (2018-2020).

She is currently a Member of Parliament and President of the Commission for the Development of Communes of the National Assembly of Venezuela. She is also President of the Simón Bolívar Institute Foundation for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples. She is also Political Liaison of the National Directorate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) for the state of Portuguesa. She is also President of the Parliamentary Friendship Group of Argentina in Venezuela. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Thought of Supreme Commander Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías.