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Land for People not for Profit in Venezuela
August 23, 2005 ... phenomenon that among economists is known as “Dutch Disease.” [2] The inflow of foreign currency as a result of ... most urbanized countries. Another result of Dutch Disease is that Venezuela is the only Latin American country ... and the land reform program. The intensification of Dutch Disease, especially during the country’s oil boom years of ... -
Building Socialism of the 21st Century in Venezuela
July 29, 2005 ... too, that socialism is not the worship of technology -- a disease that has plagued Marxism and which in the Soviet ... -
Venezuela's Agrarian Land Reform: More like Lincoln than Lenin
February 25, 2005 ... the country’s disastrous experience with the “Dutch Disease.” • The government should concentrate more on ... up 4% of the U.S. land mass. Venezuela and the “Dutch Disease” Today, about 90% of Venezuela’s 25 million ... we shall have for years.” This problem of the “Dutch Disease” – the phenomenon of an economy slumping as a ... -
President Chavez's Speech to the United Nations
September 16, 2005 ... world peace, the dream of a world not ashamed by hunger, disease, illiteracy, extreme necessity, needs-apart from ... -
Whose Democracy? Venezuela Stymies U.S. (Again)
June 8, 2005 The US attempt to impose an interventionist mechanism at the 35th OAS General Assembly was rejected by a hemisphere intent upon asserting its right to self-determination. The US’ failure handed Venezuela an impressive victory in an organization long seen as an appendage of the giant to the North. -
Venezuela's Indigenous Peoples Protest Coal Mining
April 5, 2005 ... range. Coal mining operations ”bring pollution and disease. They are destroying our farming practices, they are ... -
Venezuela: Participatory Democracy or Government as Usual?
June 15, 2005 ... of all the emergence of a problem known as the “Dutch disease.” [1] A country catches this economic disease whenever a commodity brings an increase of income in ... and prices. One can observe the symptoms of the Dutch disease in the Venezuelan economy quite clearly when one ... -
Hugo Chávez and Petro Populism
March 25, 2005 ... in some ominous urban hourglass. Illiteracy, violence, disease and the listlessness of endemic unemployment have ... bred by all resource-rich economies--the famous "Dutch disease," in which the oil-rich state is expected to dole out ... -
Venezuelan Women International Women Share Experiences at Solidarity Conference
April 17, 2005 Women from all over the world met in Caracas to exchange their countries’ experiences and ideas in the fight for gender equality. They affirmed that without peace and solidarity it is impossible to construct a new world in which men and women are truly equal. -
Teaching Race in Venezuela
May 13, 2005 If Venezuela is to present a positive example to the world, it must acknowledge the existence of racism in Venezuela and bring the State and communities together in the classroom to start teaching an anti-racist curriculum, said participants at a recent conference on race in Venezuela. -
Escaping the Legacy of Colonial Development in Venezuela
September 28, 2005 ... is a death sentence to be a worker." Suffering from a lung disease, silicosis, he, like many of his associates, faces a ... -
World Social Forum, Venezuela: Another World Is Possible
October 4, 2005 ... being developed that fit Andean soil and climate, resist disease, and produce prodigiously. Ignorant of traditional ... -
Address to Venezuela’s National Assembly in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King
August 29, 2005 ... farming and expand communications to wipe out poverty, disease and AIDS, and undrinkable water. We must lead by ... -
"If the Imperialist Government of the White House Dares to Invade Venezuela, the War of 100 Years Will be Unleashed in South Ame
September 19, 2005 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks on Democracy Now! in his first interview in the United States. Chavez discusses the war in Iraq, President Bush, the role of the media in the aborted coup against him and Venezuela's request for the extradition of Cuban anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles.