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Chavez Views Presidency As Epic Struggle
September 23, 2007 ... He recalls Venezuela's 2002 coup, when he was ousted for 47 hours, and how the U.S. swiftly recognized the government ... with the zeal of a preacher in a prayer meeting. On his hours-long Sunday radio and TV program "Hello, President," he ... -
Constitutional reforms in Venezuela
October 26, 2007 ... October 7, some 9,020 public events – over 192 a day for 47 days – were held throughout the country to provide ... took over 80,000 phone calls – over 1,700 a day for 47 days – in which Venezuelan citizens were able to offer ... reform of Article 90 would decrease the workweek from 44 hours to 36 hours. The proposed reform of Article 98 would ... -
The Deepening of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution: Why Most People Don’t Get It
May 7, 2007 ... active than the citizens of any other surveyed country - 47% discuss politics regularly (against a regional average of ... -
Hugo Chávez and Constitutional Reform
September 17, 2007 ... others...” (15) The workday would be limited to six hours creating a 36-hour workweek and employers would be ... ($286USD/month), and decreased the work week from 44 hours to 36. No other government in the world has done so ... -
Our 21st Century Zimmerwald
October 16, 2007 ... October 13 meeting with Fidel Castro lasted for over four hours. On Alo Presidente the next day he played a ten-minute ... always dynamic and participatory. Throughout the five hours he often invited compas (brothers and/or sisters) in ... -
Hugo Chávez Editorial
August 11, 2007 ... price, 42% less than in the market. • The weekly working hours have been reduced from 44 to 36 and the minimum wage ... -
Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution Tells Us: "People are the Beginning and the End of Everything"
February 26, 2007 ... in 1940. He is the author of a vast work that encompasses 47 titles, eight of them narrative fiction. In 1970, he won ... -
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 ... -
Where Is Venezuela Going?
July 16, 2007 ... the workweek is to be shortened from forty to thirty-six hours by 2010.2 Land reform has shifted 8.8 million acres to ... kept production going in spite of management sabotage.47 While the episode was “ephemeral,” it was successful, ... fighter jets, fifty-three helicopters, and 100,000 AK-47 rifles from Russia.99 Such spending is seen as necessary ... -
Venezuela: Blows and Counterblows
July 4, 2007 ... government, handing over 82.14% of its shares. [7] 47. On the first of May, the Venezuelan government ... -
Walters: “He likes the U.S. It's George Bush that he doesn't like”
March 19, 2007 ... starring him, usually only him. For at least two hours at a time, occasionally he takes callers. Like Fidel ... -
Interview with the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías
March 13, 2007 ... 3 months ago, or to be more exact, December 3, 1998, 48 hours before his electoral victory, I interviewed Hugo ... power. The political power that we will assume within 48 hours as the new government, the moral power that we have ... to say at this moment, your last TV appearance—only 48 hours before the vote… President Chávez I have said many ... -
The People of the Venezuelan Revolution
March 14, 2007 ... to forget: the maid to a wealthy family who travels for hours to and from her cardboard shack each day to wait on ... -
"Build it Now": An Interview with Michael A. Lebowitz
March 1, 2007 ... later published in Historical Materialism , 14(2):29-47, 2006) How then could we ever think of technology or the ... -
Venezuela's Bad Example
November 28, 2007 The Venezuelan political process is systematically demonized not just by the bourgeois media but also by some supposed progressives. They tend to focus more on the figure of Chavez than on what that deepening social change means for the great mass of people marginalised and oppressed since independence from the Spanish colonial centre.
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