Cecosesola (Central Cooperativa de Servicios Sociales del Estado Lara) is a large-scale cooperative network based in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, operating since 1967. It integrates worker-managed markets, health services, transportation, and production without formal hierarchies or elected leadership. Decision-making is carried out through open assemblies and continuous collective deliberation, emphasizing trust, shared responsibility, and consensus rather than bureaucratic control. Cecosesola represents a sustained experiment in non-state, non-capitalist self-governance and radical economic democracy operating at a metropolitan scale.
| Creation date | 1967 |
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| Topics | Commons, Democracy, Economy, Social justice |
| Context | Urban |
| Typology | Worker Cooperative |
| Languages | Spanish; Castilian |
| Thematics | Radical Democracy |