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VENEZUELA: Andean Money Founds Bank Recovery Fund
A 200 million dollar loan from the Andean Development Corporation (CAF) will be created within a month in Venezuela to help the financial system over the tail end of crisis which hit the nation in 1994.ECONOMY-VENEZUELA: Shelves Crammed but Stomachs Rumbling
Venezuela's warehouses are overstocked. But the tables of the country's 22 million inhabitants are increasingly bare.HABITAT: Castro’s Upbraiding of World Leaders Meets with Acclaim
Cuban President Fidel Castro's fiery speech, in which he upbraided world leaders for their poor turnout, was met with clamorous applause at the "Cities Summit" that closed here Friday.HABITAT: Live better in the North!
It's official. People living in the cities of the North are better off than those in the cities of the developing South - 100 times better off in some cases.HABITAT: Scaling the Last Stumbling Blocks in Istanbul
The "City Summit" was nearer than ever to a housing policy for the thousands of millions of people who will need homes in decades to come, Monday.HABITAT: Housing – Women’s Passport to Citizenship
Women are defending their right to housing, seen as basic to the exercising of their rights as citizens, say leaders of Latin American organisations at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) meeting in Istanbul.HABITAT-LATIN AMERICA: Women Bear the Brunt of Urbanisation
Poor women bear the brunt of urban problems in Latin America, while paying an enormous, unrecognised price, non-governmental women's organisations (NGOs) said Wednesday at the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements.VENEZUELA-ECONOMY: IMF Throws its Weight behind Adjustment Program
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Michel Camdessus, is being wined and dined in Venezuela by three long-time opponents of IMF prescriptions: a socialist, a social democrat and a christian democrat.HABITAT: Water, Elusive Resource in Latin American Cities
Most Latin American cities are confronted with the problem of ensuring ready supplies of water both for drinking and for use in sewerage systems.VENEZUELA: Poverty, the Bane of the Nation
Teodoro Petkoff is the socialist planning minister who helped implement the neoliberal adjustment programmes in Venezuela, but Teodoro is also the name of the man who sells "pichache" behind the market in this city.EDUCATION-VENEZUELA: Community Schooling, the New Alternative
Parents in Venezuela, faced with the struggling State education system or profit-motive private schools are opting for an exciting new alternative, the community school - run by the parents, governors and teachers themselves.VENEZUELA: Hospitals Totter and Fall in Domino Effect Closures
Venezuela's hospitals started to close down as several institutions were forced to stop attending patients as breakdowns, shortages of supplies and strikes toppled them like dominos, one after the other.TOURISM-VENEZUELA: Cableway to Provide New Panorama
Abandoned for years, the cableway that runs from Caracas to mount Avila and from there to the Caribbean coast will be working again in a few months, and will point the way to a new outlook for the tourist sector in Venezuela.VENEZUELA: Adjustment Going According to Plan
The Venezuelan economy is "going according to the script" after neoliberalism was reimposed with a drastic adjustment programme a month ago, said Planning Minister Teodoro Petkoff Monday.OIL: Venezuela to Ask for New Quota in OPEC Conference
Venezuela will ask the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for changes in the system by which production quotas are assigned to its 12 members, Energy Minister Erwin Arrieta said.DEVELOPMENT: NGOs Want “Positive Redefinition”
Its time non-governmental organisations (NGOs) took a hard look at the terminology defining their activities to end confusion which bunches a wide diversity of civil society under one umbrella, says a Venezuelan NGO.VENEZUELA: The Ghost Ship of the Disorganised State
The Venezuelan public administration "is characterised by disorder, indiscipline and illegality" in a nation which could well be described as "a ghost ship," according to treasury inspector Eduardo Roche.VENEZUELA: Fuel Slows the Speed of Economic Adjustment
The spectre of a fall in production and a food shortage mean that fuel has started to work as a brake instead of an accelerator on the adjustment programme started three weeks ago in Venezuela.VENEZUELA: Debate on Oil Privatization Goes On, and On…
The long-running debate on whether to privatize Venezuela's oil industry shows no sign of coming to any quick conclusion.LATIN AMERICA: Rebellious Military Leaders, Washington’s New Enemy
The U.S. government's speedy backing of Paraguayan President Juan Carlos Wasmosy in the face of a recent coup threat gives credit to the thesis that Washington's new international doctrine in the post-Cold War world centers on the promotion of democracy.DISARMAMENT: Latin America’s Armies – No Longer Armed to the Teeth
Latin America's armies, which 20 years ago were armed to the teeth and exercising political power in many countries, have less funds at their disposal today for costly arms, and are redefining their role along with civilian governments that are growing steadily stronger.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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