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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. -
Hector Navarro: Critical Revolutionary Voices Must Reach the National Assembly
August 18, 2015 ... for production [a phenomenon known in English as Dutch Disease.] Part of our tragedy is that the industries were ... -
50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
March 9, 2013 50 ways Hugo Chavez had an impact on Venezuela and Latin America -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...