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Ex Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera Dies
December 27, 2009 ... his last years due to poor health caused by Parkinson’s disease, and died on 24 December aged 93. He was buried ... -
Let THE HONDURAN PEOPLE decide, Brian Thompson
LetterJune 29, 2009 ... cowed, toiling and impoverished masses suffer overwork, disease and malnutrition before they are "allowed" to gain a ... -
Fat, Gay and Proud: A New Kind of Venezuelan Beauty Queen
December 8, 2009 ... into Miss Aragua. "It's not easy for us. Machismo is a disease." President Hugo Chávez has spoken in favour of gay ... -
El Salvador's FMLN welcomes Hugo Chavez's call for a Fifth International
December 23, 2009 The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) acknowledges and welcomes the initiative of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela to promote a new space that has become known as "V [Fifth] Socialist International”: to promote the path of socialism as the way to guarantee human development. -
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on How to Tackle Climate Change: “We Must Go from Capitalism to Socialism”
December 23, 2009 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez spared no criticism of the climate conference in Copenhagen. Well, shortly after the news conference, I caught up with President Chavez for a few minutes. -
The Moore Saga
BlogOctober 27, 2009 The New York Times did a "story" today on my reaction to Michael Moore's fairy tale about meeting with President Chávez in Venice this past September. The article, written by Simon Romero, was published in both the print and online editions of one... -
Venezuela reaches the Millennium Development Goals
July 14, 2009 ... 7 new vaccines were incorporated into the strategy for disease prevention; he highlighted that in 2008 alone more ... -
Multipolar Machinations: Chávez Endeavors to 'Sow the Oil' with Russia and China
October 16, 2009 ... itself to an easy exit. In what has been termed the "Dutch disease" - named for the diminution of Dutch manufacturing ... -
Venezuelan President’s Speech on Climate Change in Copenhagen
December 17, 2009 ... with the poor, the hungry, and the most vulnerable to disease, to natural disasters. Mr. President, a new and ... -
What Effect has 10 Years of Hugo Chávez Had on Venezuela? A Debate
February 4, 2009 Francisco Toro, one of the writers of the anti-Chavez blog Caracas Chronicles, and Redmond O'Neil, the director of the Venezuela Information Centre in London, enter into a written debate on 10 years of the Chavez presidency. -
Cuba and ALBA let down Sri Lanka’s Tamils
November 23, 2009 I think that the governments of Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua let down the entire Tamil population in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, as well as “proletarian internationalism” and the “exploited”, by extending unconditional support to Sri Lanka’s racist government. -
The Food Sovereignty Movement in Venezuela, Part 1
November 26, 2009 ... Product (GDP). Most widely referred to as “Dutch disease”, the Venezuelan economy suffered from paralysis in ... neglect. With another oil boom in the 1970’s, the Dutch disease only worsened. The increased importation of food ... -
The Venezuelan Effort to Build a New Food and Agriculture System
October 18, 2009 ... Venezuela (through an economic phenomenon known as "Dutch Disease"), while providing insights into the early stages of ...