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Venezuela: New Power Outage as Oil Output Plummets
April 10, 2019 ... than on previous occasions, with power restored within 3 hours to Caracas, areas of nearby states Aragua and Miranda, ... also resumed service on Wednesday morning. Within a few hours power had also been restored to other states such as ... see power restored and only having electricity for a few hours at a time. Venezuela has suffered from a series of ... -
Rentier Consciousness
January 13, 2011 In Venezuela, an oil rentier nation, the revolution has many very unique characteristics. Here, exploitation acquires more a quality of plunder than the appropriation of others' labour. That is, the bourgeoisie, the privileged class, arises and sustains itself by thriving on oil income, more than it does by sucking workers' blood. So the dispute is more about oil income than liberation from the exploitation of work. -
Hugo Chávez and Petro Populism
March 25, 2005 ... based on oil prices. In 2004 government spending jumped 47 percent, much of which went to pay for healthcare and ... -
The 2002 Oil Lockout: 10 Years Later
December 7, 2012 ... within the Venezuelan Armed Forces, which lasted only 48 hours, to end Venezuela’s democratic experiment with ... -
Venezuela’s Maduro Announces String of Emergency Economic Measures
February 18, 2016 The economic initiatives include changes to the country’s multi-tiered exchange rate, a rise in the domestic price of gasoline, the implementation of a new tax system, and placing more power over food distribution in the hands of organised communities. -
The Achievements of Hugo Chavez: An Update on the Social Determinants of Health in Venezuela
December 20, 2012 ... economies. In general, the Venezuelan economy has grown 47.4% in ten years, that is, 4.3% per annum. [viii] . Today ... -
Venezuela: Knocking over Dominos in Latin America
May 26, 2005 Recent demands by the people of Bolivia for their government to "take the same path as Venezuela" revelas the powerful resonance of the "Bolivarian revolution" throuhout Latin America. As Venezuela depeens this process of social, economic, and political transformation it is increasingly unlikely that the people of Latin America will tolerate their unresponsive governments. It is equally unlikely that the Cold War mentality of Washington will tolerate the threat of a good example. -
Why Did the US Government and Big Oil Hate Chavez?
March 12, 2013 ... going to show this again. Here's The New York Times just hours after President Chávez's death, and the headline is ...