From Maynard Seider, MCLA professor of Sociology:
Charles Hardy, former Maryknoll priest who has spent the last 22 years in Venezuela, will speak on “Venezuela’s Democratic Revolution” this Wednesday, April 11th, in Murdock 218 at 7:00 p.m. Hardy is on a nation-wide book tour discussing the changes in Venezuela during the Chavez years. He’s from Wyoming and his book in entitled “Cowboy in Caracas: A North American’s Memoir of Venezuela’s Democratic Revolution.” Charlie was one of our guides when I went on a study tour of Venezuela last year and is a most interesting and accessible speaker. This presentation is sponsored by the Sociology, History, and Education Departments.
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1 Venezuela // May 31, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Letter from a REAL Venezuelan Girl to Mr. Hardy
It is really funny how people might thing that in fact Chavez is doing something for MY COUNTRY VENEZUELA, where delinquency has been growing in an alarming way… I am talking about 11,025 Homicides in 2003!!! Don’t even talk about last year quantity of Homicides… I am wonder if Mr. Charles Hardy would like to write a book about the fast growing of delinquency on CHAVEZ PRESIDENCY!!!
Think for one second, what type of people in average is a delinquent, I would say that most of the time is people with low incomes and poor quality of live, ironically that is the People that the President Chavez says He “supports & Helps”, and so I ask myself who the delinquents in VENEZUELA are then???
As of today in Venezuela the word “crime” forms part of the daily conversations where you as an average person cannot have the beautiful dreamed home (even if you have worked your whole life to have it), and if you do… Well, you better have a lot of money because you might be kidnapped. Believed or not that is a fact and even do if you are a medium class or low class person you might be kidnapped as well because EVERYBODY HAVE A PRICE in the actual Venezuelan delinquency Era.
Criminality is so bad lately in Venezuela that you cannot use nice shoes, a nice watch or a nice cell phone (if you want to still alive) although you might have it you can use it very carefully, in private parties, inside your house or relatives homes, and if you go out you better take it all of and better try to have a “low profile life”… That’s the real truth of LIVING IN VENEZUELA …
I respect all comments and opinion although I don’t agree with them, and you know what that’s so beautiful about democracy, been able to express, think and be Govern by Yourself; because the only Cancer and Enemy of the people is the Government that tries to indoctrinate it, shout it up or intimidate it.
This criminality situation that all Venezuelan are living under Chavez Government not only happens in the Metropolitan City CARACAS it is actually happening all over the Country….
Yes, it’s a wonderful CHAVEZ PROJECT of SOCIAL DESTRUCTION!!
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