Reuters: Chavez "Communes" Stoke Venezuela Democracy Debate
Tucked into forested
hills in southwest Caracas, a red-brick housing complex for the poor is
a testing ground for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's latest step to
build socialism in the Latin American oil producer.
The phalanx of simple five-storey apartment blocks, some still being built, anchors the "Cacique Tiuna Commune". This is one of a network of "socialist communes" that Chavez and his supporters want to extend across the nation in a political and legislative offensive to dismantle "bourgeois" capitalism.
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The phalanx of simple five-storey apartment blocks, some still being built, anchors the "Cacique Tiuna Commune". This is one of a network of "socialist communes" that Chavez and his supporters want to extend across the nation in a political and legislative offensive to dismantle "bourgeois" capitalism.
Read the entire article here.
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