get back to me when Chavez gets them clean drinking water and sanitation.
I'm back ...
Alternatives to Corporate Globalization: Venezuela's ALBA
Since the election of Hugo Chávez as president of Venezuela in 1998, a fundamental shift is taking place. For the first time, oil revenues are being used to provide health care, education, clean water, subsidized food,
electricity, and other basic services to all Venezuelan citizens – and especially the poor who were marginalized under previous neoliberal governments.
But the impacts of Venezuela’s new economic model are not just benefiting the citizens of Venezuela. A fundamental aspect of Venezuela’s vision for the future of Latin America is creating an alternative to the neoliberal model of corporate globalization that will roll back the growing scourge of poverty in the region.
According to the UN, 222 million people - 43% of the population of Latin America - are poor, with 96 million – nearly one in five – living on less than a buck a day.
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A key aspect of Venezuela’s opposition to corporate globalization is regarding the privatization of services like health care, education, and distribution of water, which are guaranteed in Venezuela’s Constitution.
Education: For example, Venezuela has accomplished a massive literacy campaign that has taught over 1.4 million Venezuelans how to read and write. Venezuela has also built or refurbished over 9,000 elementary schools, vastly increasing enrollment, and now provides lunches to disadvantaged schoolchildren.
Water: Venezuela has been carrying out a large-scale project to ensure clean water to all Venezuelan citizens. Lack of access to clean water is the single biggest killer of poor people worldwide, yet privatizing water is a top
agenda of the corporations promoting globalization.
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/venezuela/VZneoliberalismALBA.pdf
Venezuela
Something unprecedented is happening in Venezuela. Since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1999 Venezuela has embarked on a profound and controversial project of reinventing society from within, changing a political and economic system that benefits the few and powerful to one that gives ordinary Venezuelans a seat at the table.
Now, for the first time, millions of Venezuelans have access to education, job training, housing, land, clean water, health care, and something maybe even more precious: dignity.
While the personality of Hugo Chavez monopolizes the headlines and the mainstream media reduces complex issues to simplistic soundbites, the reality of the Venezuelan revolution is complex, contradictory and ever-changing. With new spaces for political participation opened to grassroots social movements, once-marginalized Venezuelan citizens have come out of the shadows to demand an active role in society.
Community-based health care missions now bring medical services to poor neighborhoods. Educational programs are putting millions more children into new schools, while new university opportunities are providing higher education to Venezuelans previously shut out of the system. At the same time, women, indigenous peoples, and Afro-Venezuelans are gaining stature and rights, while a high-profile agrarian reform campaign is giving poor farmers access to land.
Venezuela is also becoming a leader in regional integration, particularly in the promotion of viable alternatives to corporate globalization and the "free trade" economic model. The proposed Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) would prioritize regional cooperation to strengthen Latin American economies. Venezuela also helped create the Bank of the South, an alternative source of funding for development in Latin America, TeleSur, a Latin American news channel, and PetroAmérica— the first fully integrated, Latin American oil company.
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/venezuela/
I recognize that living conditions getting better is not good news to you because all you're interested in is PROFITS. I have other interests when it comes to Venezuela or anywhere else .. what benefits the people is my concern, not what benefits corporations.
Venezuela is not dependent on US taxpayers for a dime .. yet Israel is and in fact couldn't survive without US taxpayer dollars AND it subjugates a large portion of it's population .. yet you have a problem with Venezuela.
amazing