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Venezuela
Despite its great wealth as the world's fifth-largest oil producer, when President Chavez began his first term in office in 1999, Venezuela was a country in which nearly half of all households lived in poverty. To address this injustice, the state-owned oil company increased spending on social programs from 40 million to 13.3 billion dollars annually as of 2006. Now, all Venezuelans are guaranteed access to education, job training, housing, and health care. Between 1998 and 2007, the household poverty rate dropped by 31%.
Click here to visit the Venezuela Information Office.
We went to Venezuela to witness the revolution and to hear first-hand how the poor peoples' lives were being transformed. We filmed during the December 2006 Presidential elections and spoke to barrio-dwellers about:
Voting rights: Mission Identity: Citizenship Rights For All Venezuelans
Universal Healthcare
Poverty Reduction in Venezuela
We also spoke with the farmers in Vargas region about land reform & farming.
We spoke with leaders of key social programs such as:
Nora Castenada, BANMUJER (Woman's Bank)
