{"id":5245,"date":"2004-08-17T18:19:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:53:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:53:24","slug":"why-venezuela-has-voted-again-for-their-negro-e-indio-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/17\/why-venezuela-has-voted-again-for-their-negro-e-indio-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Venezuela has voted again for their ‘Negro e Indio’ president."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton’s Band<\/a>
\nBy Greg Palast
\ngregpalast.com
\nMonday 16 August 2004<\/p>\n

Why Venezuela has voted again for their ‘Negro e Indio’ president.<\/p>\n

There’s so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. Let’s begin with this: 77% of Venezuela’s farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the ‘hacendados.’<\/p>\n

I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I’ve ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, “Chavez – dic-ta-dor!” The plantation owner griped about the “socialismo” of Chavez, then jumped into his Jaguar convertible. <\/p>\n

That week, Chavez himself handed me a copy of the “socialist” manifesto that so rattled the man in the Jag. It was a new law passed by Venezuela’s Congress which gave land to the landless. The Chavez law transferred only fields from the giant haciendas which had been left unused and abandoned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “race” issue is rarely mentioned in the numerous stories about Venezuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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