Mr Garcia also says there is a serious contradiction at the heart of the government's plan to promote literature in Venezuela.

BBC: Venezuela's revolutionary reading

Ms Plant is professor emeritus in art history at Monash University in Melbourne but she is a social historian at heart and her canvas embraces literature, music, politics, architecture and town planning as well as arts and crafts.

ECONOMIST: Venice

According to Syrian revolutionary thinker Said Hawwa in his influential book Min Ajl Khutwa (English: For the Sake of a Step), jihad may come in three flavors: by heart, by word, and by hand, a tripartite distinction derived from the hadith literature.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Jihad of the Word