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Venezuelan Diamonds Under the Microscope
October 29, 2007 ... in setting up the Kimberley Process, an agreement of 47 governments, the international diamond industry and civil ... and buyers to prohibit imports that are not certified. The 47 KP participants, including the European Union, make up ... -
Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt
February 11, 2019 FAIR's Adam Johnson unravels some press mistruths about the USAID on the Venezuelan border. -
US Foreign Policy in Latin America Leaves an Open Door for China
February 3, 2014 ... considers strategic allies. Mexico has access to a hefty $47.3bn that it has not needed to tap. China has $3.8tn in ... -
Another Boomerang Stuns the Venezuelan Bourgeoisie
May 21, 2010 ... to 115% of its GDP. Venezuela’s public debt fell from 47.5 percent of GDP in 2003 to 13.8 percent in 2008. In 2009, ... -
Ricardo Hausmann’s 'Morning After' for Venezuela: The Neoliberal Brain Behind Juan Guaido’s Economic Agenda
March 14, 2019 While online audiences know YouTube comedian Joanna Hausmann from her videos making the case for regime change, her economist father has flown below the radar. His record holds the key to understanding what the U.S. wants in Venezuela. -
Finding Fuel in Venezuela: An Odyssey
July 3, 2019 ... users endure shorter queues, of between 10 and 20 hours, for the 5-12 litres they are allocated. Again, this can mean that a large bike needs up to 60 hours of queuing time to fill the tank to the top. Despite ... which apart from losing copious amounts of (wo)man hours in the queues, are physically and mentally unable to ... -
ALBA: Creating a Regional Alternative to Neo-liberalism?
February 13, 2008 ... aimed at providing housing and education to the country's 47,000 street children. 5 Under ALBA, Venezuela supplies oil ... -
Chavez Versus the Free Trade Zombies of the Americas
November 30, 2003 Venezuela was the single and solitary nation to say "no thanks" at Miami’s treaty of the living dead economies. Greg Palast reports on his meeting with Venezuela´s chief FTAA negotiator. -
Venezuela’s Triumph in Mercosur
July 9, 2004 Venezuela's admission to the Common Market of the South represents a historical milestone in the political and economic integration of Latin America and promises to make Mercosur into an important counter-weight to U.S power. -
IMF and World Bank Face Declining Authority as Venezuela Announces Withdrawal
May 4, 2007 ... left-of-center governments. On April 12, 2002, just hours after Venezuela's democratically elected government was ... -
Steve Ellner: Democratization of PSUV is Key to Chavismo’s Future
October 10, 2016 ... First, you have the popular sectors waiting on lines for hours and hours but they are able to buy goods that they need because ... I’m not denying that those lines are sometimes 4, 5, 6 hours which is a terrible situation. I’m not denying the ... -
Summit of the Americas, Argentina: Tomb of the FTAA
November 24, 2005 ... In Caracas last weekend, President Chávez spent four hours analyzing on national television the different ... -
President Chavez's Speech to Venezuelan and U.S. Business Representatives
July 6, 2005 ... in the morning. After a little rest for a few hours, some pills, a vaporizer, and here I am. Thanks to ... refineries in Corpus Christi, and I conversed for some two hours with workers, all of them North American, from that ... stayed several days. And we talked a lot, for many many hours, about oil, about energy, about politics. I believe ... -
What Is Happening in Venezuela?
March 3, 2015 ... cheap gas prices” (tropical versions of Romney’s 47 percenters). But, she says, the “Bolivarian movement has ... -
The Bank of the South: An Alternative to IMF and World Bank Dominance
October 29, 2007 Hugo Chavez's vision is to liberate the region's countries from IMF, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank (IBD) control that condemn millions to poverty through their lending practices. Helped by windfall oil profits, his government is already doing it with an unprecedented commitment to provide financial aid and below-market priced oil to regional and other countries.
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