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Down But Not Out in Caracas
December 5, 2007 ... 49.3 per cent. 'Por ahora,' as Chávez said in his early hours address: 'for now.' A combination of fear about what ... by Chávez's comments and commitments made in the early hours of this morning, there is no mood for turning back. ... -
Keeping the Record Straight on Venezuela
December 9, 2007 ... dramatically to the camera that he had been "held for 30 hours" by police in Caracas. In fact, he had walked into a ... including those that would reduce the working week from 44 hours to 36 hours; extend social security benefits to 5 million ... -
Concession Speech of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
December 8, 2007 ... the thousands of Venezuelans who were working for up to 24 hours at the polls, the national electoral council- I want to ... from my heart I tell you, and believe me I spent many hours debating this dilemma with myself, at the very depths ... heart, here in my Venezuelan soul I spent four and a half hours with a great dilemma, from 9:00 at night until 1:00, ... -
Fear of Chavez is Fear of Democracy
December 5, 2007 ... nation’s constitution with changes in property law, work hours and so many other complex economic adjustments that the ... of its own weight. It’s the Oil. Term limits and work hours in Venezuela? Why was this a crisis for Washington? Why ... Julio Borges, on a campaign stop to a small town three hours from Caracas. We met his supporters - or, more ... -
The Venezuelan Referendum
December 4, 2007 ... age from 18 to 16; lowering the work week from 44 to 36 hours; prohibiting discrimination based on disability or ... -
Four Lessons for Progressives from Venezuela's Recent Referendum
December 6, 2007 ... informal sector. Article 90: Decrease the workweek from 44 hours to 36 hours. Article 103: Mandate that all public education, up to ... -
Venezuela: Reality versus reporting
December 17, 2007 ... state institutions * Reducing the work day to a maximum 6 hours, the work week to a maximum 36 hours * Creating parity in the voting system in universities ... -
Making Sense of Venezuela’s Constitutional Reform
December 1, 2007 ... would remain idle. Reducing the workweek from 44 to 36 hours per week would give workers more power, vis-à-vis ... about whether the workday would be six instead of eight hours, as has been widely reported. The reform text states that the workday may not exceed six hours OR 36 hours per week. The labor minister has ... -
Venezuela: The referendum defeat - What does it mean?
December 4, 2007 ... in the shops where they usually buy. Queues of a few hours, sometimes up to four hours, to buy some milk are no longer the exception. As ... -
Was Failure Chavez's Masterplan?
December 6, 2007 ... what he proposes to achieve is no secret: in thousands of hours of media appearances his visions of social justice, ... -
Venezuela's Social Democracy Hits A Speed Bump
December 4, 2007 One electoral defeat is disheartening but changes nothing. Venezuela's struggle for social democracy continues under a man who has worked nine years to build it. Don't ever count him out or his strong popular support. -
Why The Constitutional Reform In Venezuela Went Down And Where To Next!
December 10, 2007 Why, when approximately 7.1 million people voted for Chavez in the presidential elections in December 2006, did nearly 3 million of them abstain in the constitutional reform referendum a year later? -
Making Victory of Defeat: What Next for Venezuela?
December 10, 2007 While we reflect on errors made, we should not lose sight of the unique opportunities posed by this turn of events. Sunday's referendum defeat marks a critical juncture in the Bolivarian Revolution: with the most direct, state-led path to socialism effectively blocked, Chávez will have no other alternative than to rely on the mobilization of the popular revolutionary masses. -
A Debate on Hugo Chavez and Venezuela’s Failed Constitutional Reform
December 19, 2007 ... communal property and cut the work day from eight to six hours. Turnout was lower than expected. Addressing his ... -
Ritual Gloating Postmortems - The Corporate Media v. Hugo Chavez
December 10, 2007 For now, corporate media gloaters have center stage and aren't quoting OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza's comment that "Quite a few myths on the Venezuelan democracy are falling down. It works like all democracies....I hope the US government can acknowledge, as all of us, that it was a fair, clean process."
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