[news] Columbia & Venezuela: A Clash of Two Models

[Resist!ca]

by Justin Podur and C.P. Pandya; August 04, 2004 If Venezuela provides a new, 
albeit fragile, model of social and economic progress for the region, then its 
Andean neighbor Colombia, can be seen providing a less-favored, more dangerous 
alternative - one of neoliberal repression and privatization.  Venezuelans 
will decide which model to pursue in the referendum of August 15.  But the 
clash of the two models has taken some unexpected turns recently.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/8/5/14425/50173