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It's the Pig's Fault...
July 17, 2019 ... to guarantee vaccination against rabies and foot and mouth disease for 900,000 pig and cow livestock. Pork consumption ... -
Tales of Resistance: No Growth or Prosperity
August 20, 2019 ... when it starts looking like the cure is worse than the disease. There’s a universal truth to that. Jessica Dos ... -
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 ... -
Referendum brings 'revolution' mixing free markets with social welfare
September 8, 2004 ... them clinics and helping them distribute vitamins or run disease-prevention campaigns. In a program launched this ... -
Hugo Chávez and Constitutional Reform
September 17, 2007 The constitutional reform project introduced by the Venezuelan President on August 15, 2007 has provoked an unprecedented media frenzy. However, Chávez has sparked hope not only in his own people, who are now inexorable actors in establishing the trajectory of their country; but he is also a source of inspiration for the dispossessed around the globe. -
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." -
Municipalism in Venezuela Offers a Pathway Beyond Authoritarianism
November 2, 2018 ... in the price of curd. But the problems with this Dutch disease go deeper, since the oil industry effectively ... -
The Vitality of the Revolution
September 3, 2014 ... the elimination of democracy as such, is worse than the disease it is supposed to cure; for it stops up the very ... -
Venezuela in 2011: A Year of Great Battles and Advances
January 6, 2012 ... laid before him over the past decade, Chavez took the disease head on, eschewing the speculative attacks and ... -
Venezuela’s Coronavirus Response Might Surprise You
March 26, 2020 ... quickly carried out a plan to contain the spread of the disease. On March 12, a day before the first confirmed cases, ... -
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 ... -
Understanding Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution: A View into the National Constituent Assembly
February 27, 2018 ... Notes: Venezuela’s wealth in oil has created dutch disease: High demand for its oil results in a high currency ... -
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. -
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 ...