“I’m a woman with a new life since the Bolivarian Revolution knocked on my door,” said Pielrroc Montenegro, Maracaiban by birth and Andean by tradition, with glazed eyes full of nostalgia and gratitude.
By Yovita Vera and Cheryl Gallagher - The Guardian Weekly, Mar 11th 2009
In the wake of International Women's Day, Yovita Vera,55, who received the programme's support to set up a sewing cooperative, shares her hope that one day all Venezuelan women can work for themselves.
