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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 ...

December 17, 2009 ... with the poor, the hungry, and the most vulnerable to disease, to natural disasters. Mr. President, a new and ...

February 27, 2018 ... Notes: Venezuela’s wealth in oil has created dutch disease: High demand for its oil results in a high currency ...

December 6, 2008 ... When the clinic opened in the neighborhood, the nature of disease changed as more families had access to preventive ... medicine and attended clinics earlier in the course of a disease. A subtle shift in the sense of security in the ...

July 9, 2010 ... for Elderly and Young Child Households) [vii] Center for Disease Control “Hypothermia-Related Deaths --- United ... natural cold (e.g. falls, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, or drowning). During 1999--2002, among those who ...

October 23, 2003 The Barrio Adentro (Inside the Barrio) program is one of the government's most popular programs because it provides free healthcare to Venezuela's poorest. An extensive report on the program and its controversies.

August 27, 2003 ... care, vaccinations, and free surgery for congenital heart disease have lowered Venezuela’s infant mortality rate from ...

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.

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.

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 ...

October 4, 2005 ... being developed that fit Andean soil and climate, resist disease, and produce prodigiously. Ignorant of traditional ...

April 12, 2006 Hilary Wainwright had only a few days left in Caracas after the 2006 World Social Forum. She wanted to understand for herself the rare radicalism of the Venezuelan military. How did they themselves understand the central role they played in civilian society? What were they like as people?

August 21, 2007 ... income is determined to be anti-American.  Does that mean disease, ignorance, hunger and poverty are pro-American? ...

May 26, 2008 ... (1966, with Staughton Lynd), The Love of Possession Is a Disease With Them (1972), Ending the War in Iraq (2007) and ...

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.