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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 ... -
Learning in the Wilds: Venezuela’s First Indigenous University
June 21, 2011 Every morning, groups of tribespeople cross a jungle creek from their adobe student homes and wander barefoot through the thick undergrowth inhabited by boa constrictors to reach class at Venezuela’s first indigenous university in Cano Tauca. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Pemon Indigenous Occupy Airport in Venezuela: “We Have Had Enough of Broken Promises”
December 2, 2014 ... their land after a worker was diagnosed with a respiratory disease from inhaling fumes and was treated with contempt by ... -
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. -
Venezuela’s Indigenous Pemon are Caught in Time on Land Too Valuable for Numbers
October 21, 2014 In the shadow of Columbus Day, venezuelanalysis.com writer Z.C. sketches, through interviews, an intimate portrait of a changing people – the Pemon of Venezuela’s mineral-rich Southeastern border. Their testimonies of struggle reflect the country’s changing political landscape and highlights a stark generational gap that afflicts many of Latin America’s first nation peoples. -
"If We Have to Die For Our Lands, We Will Die"
February 9, 2007 On the one hand, Chavez needs political support from indigenous peoples. But he also seeks important hemispheric integration, which could jeopardize this support. -
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 ...