In Venezuela Chavez has made the co-ops a top political priority, giving them first refusal on government contracts and offering them economic incentives to trade with one another. By 2006, there were roughly 100,000 co-operatives in the country, employing more than 700,000 workers. Many are pieces of state infrastructure – toll booths, highway maintenance, health clinics – handed over to the communities to run. It’s a reverse of the logic of government outsourcing – rather than auctioning off pieces of the state to large corporations and losing democratic control, the people who use the resources are given the power to manage them, creating, at least in theory, both jobs and more responsive public services. Chavez’s many critics have derided these initiatives as handouts and unfair subsidies, of course. Yet in an era when Halliburton treats the U.S. government as its personal ATM for six years, withdraws upward of $20 billion in Iraq contracts alone, refuses to hire local workers either on the Gulf coast or in Iraq, then expresses its gratitude to U.S. taxpayers by moving its corporate headquarters to Dubai (with all the attendant tax and legal benefits), Chavez’s direct subsidies to regular people look significantly less radical.
Naomi KleinTags: usa venezuela taxes political chávez leftism subsidies
La división y el resentimiento se extendieron tanto como la pobreza y la inseguridad. Prácticamente en toda familia, la política revolucionaria había causado estragos: hermanos enfrentados por posiciones políticas insalvables, matrimonios deshechos, hijos que se alejaron de sus padres, la muerte misma parecía haber pactado con todas aquellas miserias del ser humano que esa nueva clase política encarnaba.
María Elena LavaudTags: venezuela chávez 11-de-abril 4-de-febrero días-de-rojo hugo-chávez maría-elena-lavaud revolución-bolivariana
Desalojar el escenario de mis crímenes, ahora convertido en polvorín de una guerra civil. El golpe de Estado, milagrosamente, aniquila el olor de la carne podrida.
Entre esos cuerpos veo al oso polar, el héroe de mi infancia, disecado, inmaculadamente blanco, arrojado a este enjambre de carne y peligrosa fauna.
- Vamos de aquí, Julio ¿o acaso te queda algo por mostrame?
- No, Amanda. Ya nada de esto me pertenece...
Tags: chávez literatura-venezolana azul-petróleo boris-izaguirre caracazo golpes-de-estado latinoamérica
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