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(Yesterday's news about the victory of the Uruguayan
Frente Amplio's presidential candidate adds to Latin
America's broad sweep to the political left. Marta
Harnecker's assessment of the victory of Venezuela's
Bolivarian process helps us both understand the key
accomplishments, and the unfinished tasks facing the
Venezuelan people, and helps us to place Uruguay's
electoral success into a broad, continental context.
(MIAMI HERALD REPORT ON URUGUAYAN ELECTION VICTORY:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/10066659.htm
)
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After the Referendum: Venezuela Faces New Challenges
by Marta Harnecker
MONTHLY REVIEW
November 2004
With President Hugo Ch�vez�s victory in the August 15
referendum, the Venezuelan opposition suffered the third
great defeat in its struggle to end his government. The
unprecedented recall referendum ratified Ch�vez�s
presidency by a margin of two million votes and was
declared valid unanimously by the hundreds of international
observers who scrutinized it.
In a part of the world where democracy has been discredited
by its failure to solve the problem of poverty, the result
provided, in the words of one observer, Eduardo Galeano,
�an injection of optimism.�
The victory belongs not to a man but to the project of
creating a country guided by humanism and solidarity in its
domestic and international spheres. It is also a victory
for a development model embracing endogenous development
and the social economy as alternatives to voracious,
destructive neoliberalism.
SNIP
FULL, MUCH LONGER AND COMPREHENSIVE COMMENTARY:
http://www.monthlyreview.org/1104harnecker.htm
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
Currently based in Venezuela. Can be reached at
Residencias Anauco Suites
Departamento 601
Parque Central, Zona Postal 1010, Oficina 1
Caracas, Venezuela
(58-212) 573-4111
fax: (58-212) 573-7724
