[news] Women and Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution

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With the fall of the dictatorship of Perez Jimenez in 1958, Venezuela tentatively took its first steps towards the aperture of a fragile, exclusionary democracy. In practice, democracy proved to be a gender-exclusive phenomenon. Although the Constitution of 1960 declared that men and women were formally equal under the law, women who had been active in the struggle for democracy found themselves devoid of its privileges and marginalized from politics.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/1/19/74133/3587