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Venezuela: Economic Populism or Pragmatism?
July 4, 2006 ... introduces a special set of challenges, called the "Dutch disease" or "resource curse." Many observers of the ... these challenges. One potential effect of the "Dutch disease" is a rise in inflation, resulting from a rapid ... around that shoal. An alternative effect of the "Dutch disease" is an overvalued currency, which stimulates an ... -
Chavez Saves "The Fierce People" - The Yanomamö
February 16, 2006 ... brought with them a number of other less benign gifts: disease, guns, tourism and a systematic eradication of their ... question (paraphrase): 'If your mission work brought a disease to the tribe you're working with - a disease that killed 200 people - but resulted in the ... -
Cuba-Venezuela Health Agreement Celebrates 6th Anniversary
November 25, 2006 The Cuba-Venezuela Integral Health Agreement is celebrating its 6th anniversary this week. According to the President’s office, nearly 14,000 Venezuelan patients and 11,000 accompaniments have been sent to Cuba on nearly 200 flights, since 2000. -
Latin American "Populism" Doing Well
March 28, 2006 ... would be forgiven for thinking that populism was a dreaded disease, like botulism. But the reality is another story ... -
Venezuela Will Reconsider Withdrawal from CAN if Others Reconsider Free Trade
April 25, 2006 ... Venezuelan beef due to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease which the Venezuelan government says has been ... -
Venezuela Inaugurates Largest Cardiological Children’s Hospital in Latin America
August 22, 2006 ... 2,750 Venezuelan children die annually as a result of the disease. Venezuela hopes that with this new hospital, they ... -
Venezuela’s Sexual Revolution Within the Revolution
March 25, 2006 ... drug distribution program the hospitals have infectious disease units. We have these five points of control because ... market. Hospital Vargas has a one-year-old infectious disease unit, which is just great — the best in the ... -
Felix’s Miracle and the Convenio Cuba-Venezuela
August 24, 2006 ... few months. As for Felix, he has learned to live with his disease and takes insulin twice a day. Only his eyes are ... -
South America-Africa Summit to Advance South-South Cooperation
October 30, 2006 The strengthening of cooperation between the South American Community of Nations and the African Union, meeting this week in Abuja, Nigeria, on political, economic and developmental issues common to both continents, has the potential to promote effective economic and political multilateralism. -
Latin America is Preparing to Settle Accounts with its White Settler Elite
November 15, 2006 The political movements and protests sweeping the continent - from Bolivia to Venezuela - are as much about race as class. The outline of a fresh struggle, with a final settling of accounts, can now be discerned. -
U2's Bono Backs Videogame with Venezuela Invasion Theme
July 6, 2006 ... rights, sustainability, debt reduction, AIDS, poverty, disease, militarism, and political oppression. Given this ... -
Venezuela's New Model Army
April 12, 2006 Hilary Wainwright had only a few days left in Caracas after the 2006 World Social Forum. She wanted to understand for herself the rare radicalism of the Venezuelan military. How did they themselves understand the central role they played in civilian society? What were they like as people? -
Hugo Chavez’s Achilles Heel: The Environment
October 9, 2006 ... affected the miners. Workers have fallen sick with lung disease as a result of their work in the mines. These ... -
Media Alert: Cartoon Time - Channel 4 Smears Chavez
April 5, 2006 ... the Venezuelan revolutionary, Simon Bolivar), to combat disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, poverty, and other social ... -
Feeding Ourselves: Organic Urban Gardens in Caracas, Venezuela
August 10, 2006 ... has reportedly contributed to a 25% decline in heart disease.[28] According to Verenzuela, Venezuelans are ...
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