Reply #2: Venezuela Speaks! Voices from the Grassroots by Martinez/Fox/Farrell [View All]

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is a good read on this same subject.

Edited by three Venezuela specialists, the book is made up of in-depth interviews with 29 radicals and activists – from women’s groups, the indigenous movement, student groups, community media and trade unions. By working in communal councils and cooperatives, building education centres, taking over factories and conducting land occupations these people have forced the profound changes that have occurred on Chavez‘s watch. Their impressive gains include cutting extreme poverty in half, reducing the infant mortality rate by 40 percent, recognising the economic value of housework, a literacy drive that taught 1.5 million people to read and write and the introduction of free higher education.

http://venezuelaspeaks.com/