Protest, Crime, and Democracy in an Oil Economy- Edgar Lander on Reality Asserts Itself | Venezuelanalysis.com

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In an interview illustrated with archival footage, Edgardo Lander, author and professor of social sciences at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, continues to put Venezuela’s current unrest in context by reviewing modern history-moving now from the beginning of PDVSA to the anti-government protests of today. (Parts 6, 7, 8 & 9 of 9)

By Edgar Lander- The Real News

May 6th 2014 at 6.49pm

Part 6: The Need for a Post-Oil Economy

Part 7: Why Still So Much Crime?

Part 8: The Protests and Democracy

Part 9: Popular Democracy

Full transcript of interview at www.therealnews.com.

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