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Four years ago, Barnhill came to Harvard as a Marx-toting freshman from one of the poorest neighborhoods in Detroit. He dreamed of being part of the revolution. “I wanted to dismantle capitalism,” he says.
The risk to Chvez is that his brand of socialism runs on oil. PDVSA sends more than a third of its revenue to the government, which spent more than $30 billion last year for a vast social-welfare crusade that has helped reduce official poverty and jobless rates appreciably...
Even some of Chávez's allies want to put the brakes on the President's radical train. Many reform proposals, they argue, are less about empowering the people than about concentrating power in the hands of Chávez. Among the initiatives: eliminating presidential term limits; putting the...
Still, despite polls that show tepid support at best for the reforms - as well as the growing anti-reform protest movement by university students, a cohort that used to be a reliable vanguard of Latin American leftism - Chvez is expected to win on Sunday. That's largely because the...
Labor no longer talks much about its founding principles. "The struggle of the working class against the excesses, injustices and inequalities of capitalism" doesn't strike much of a chord in a country where there are more self-employed workers than union members and more than 55% of adults own...