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Barrio Adentro As Seen from the Perspective of a U.S. Health Professional
August 7, 2008 ... idea of the tremendous work that is being done to prevent disease and promote the health of the Venezuelan people. I ... has showed us that a band aid approach will not eliminate disease and health care has to be in concert with a radical ... -
Venezuela's Way Ahead
January 8, 2008 ... Obvious national research priorities range from infectious-disease research and rainforest ecology, to engineering and ... -
How Green is the Latin American Left? A Look at Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia
April 3, 2008 ... effected by the economic phenomena called "Dutch Disease." In an article on the history of agriculture and ... ), Greg Wilpert describes the effects of Dutch Disease in Venezuela: The inflow of foreign currency as a ... most urbanized countries. Another result of Dutch Disease is that Venezuela is the only Latin American country ... -
Will the Bolivarian Revolution End Coal Mining in Venezuela?
May 29, 2008 ... not being paid and not receiving health benefits. Lung disease is extremely common. Workers have been intimidated or ... -
Big Tobacco Attempted To Woo El Senor Anti-Imperialista. They Didn't Get Very Far.
January 4, 2008 Back in 1999, the new Venezuelan administration wasn't viewed as unfriendly, only unknown. And the US tobacco industry had plenty to gain from friendly relations: the country, along with a bevy of others, was suing the industry for tobacco-related healthcare expenses, and stood to lose should Venezuela ramp up its cigarette taxes, heighten its anti-smuggling efforts or spearhead public health campaigns. -
John McCain: Mr Big Stick in Latin America
February 14, 2008 ... the United Nations on such issues as conflict resolution, disease treatment and prevention, environmental crises, and ... -
Exporting health care: oil and health in Venezuela
March 5, 2008 Simon Romero never fails to report bad news from Venezuela. On February 9 , under the headline "In Venezuela, Faith in Chávez Starts to Wane" he tells us that--despite the blessings of large oil reserves--food shortages and "outbreaks of dengue fever" have the populace in a foul mood. -
The Inspiring Voices of an Awakening People
October 30, 2008 Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy's book Voices from Venezuela tells us why we should pay attention to Venezuela, and does it in the best possible way - by handing a microphone to a wide range of Venezuelans, participants in the excitement, stress and strain of the "Bolivarian revolution." -
Adentro Barrio Adentro: An American Medical Student in Venezuela
December 6, 2008 ... When the clinic opened in the neighborhood, the nature of disease changed as more families had access to preventive ... medicine and attended clinics earlier in the course of a disease. A subtle shift in the sense of security in the ... -
Obama's Mixed Blessing for Latin America
May 26, 2008 ... (1966, with Staughton Lynd), The Love of Possession Is a Disease With Them (1972), Ending the War in Iraq (2007) and ... -
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution in the Post (neo)Liberal Constellation
November 18, 2008 ... extraction process. Thus something of ‘the Dutch Disease' avant la lettre took hold in Venezuela for political ... came a deepening of the Venezuelan form of the ‘Dutch disease,' as the parties which dominated the structurally ... political and economic consequences of the ‘Dutch Disease.' A historically weak working class, the absence of ... -
The Spectre of Socialism for the 21st Century Haunts Latin America
July 10, 2008 ... It’s an extreme example of what is called the ``Dutch disease’’: despite rich agricultural land, Venezuela was ...