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Crisis, Sanctions & Environment: A Conversation with Liliana Buitrago & Emiliano Terán (Part I)
April 2, 2021 ... this situation? Buitrago: Venezuela suffers from a global disease: dependence on fossil fuels. However, in our case, ... -
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. -
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 ... -
Venezuela and Climate Change
February 27, 2020 ... ability to retain water and nutrients, as well as resist disease and drought. We must make an effort to develop ... -
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 ... -
FAO Representative Debunks Myth of Increased Hunger in Venezuela, Highlights Urban Farming Initiatives
February 25, 2015 ... production in a country of petrol-income culture [Dutch disease]… it is a problem of society. Isn’t it unsafe ... -
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 ... -
Moving Toward Land Reform, Food Sovereignty and Agroecology in Venezuela
August 23, 2010 A massive transformation of agriculture is occurring in Venezuela, a transformation that has lessons for every other country in the world. -
Cancún Climate Summit: Time for a New Geopolitical Architecture
November 24, 2010 As we approach crucial climate change negotiations in Cancún, Mexico, the key question on many people's minds is this: What nation or nations will have the courage to stand up to the United States, which still represents the key obstacle to a binding agreement on global warming? -
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. -
Hugo Chavez’s Achilles Heel: The Environment
October 9, 2006 ... affected the miners. Workers have fallen sick with lung disease as a result of their work in the mines. These ... -
Crisis, Sanctions & Environment: A Conversation with Liliana Buitrago & Emiliano Terán (Part II)
April 9, 2021 Researchers from the Political Ecology Observatory talk about the environmental devastation caused by the mining and oil industries in today’s Venezuela.
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