95 - Latin American Right-Wing Reaps What It Sows: No-Nonsense Land Reform In Venezuela

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🗓️ 24 May 2007

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Today we're going to discuss another major step towards achieving economic and social justice in Venezuela: no-nonsense land reform that allows malnourished, hungry people to grow food to feed themselves and their families. And, we'll learn what it really takes to be in solidarity with the Third World poor. Taking back the fertile farmland in Venezuela from the multinationals and the local elites

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0:00.0	Readings, this is podcast number 95 of Blast the Right.
0:24.4	I'm Jack Clark from therationalradical.com www.therationalradical.com
0:30.6	Today we're going to discuss another major step towards achieving economic and social justice in Venezuela.
0:37.8	No nonsense land reform that allows malnourished hungry people to grow food to feed themselves and their families.
0:45.8	And we'll learn what it really takes to be in solidarity with the third world poor.
0:53.8	Let's get right into it.
0:55.8	My sources are the New York Times, including audio clips from its website, the advocacy groups Venezuela Analysis.org and FoodFirst.org, the polling organization AngusRead.com and Dictionary.com.
1:13.8	Listen to this.
1:15.8	Yadakoy is a lawless state.
1:19.8	The principle of authority has been lost here. When they illegally invade farms, nothing happens.
1:25.8	They have kidnapped 61 landowners and nothing happens.
1:31.8	They have killed eight landowners and nothing happens.
1:37.8	So there's nothing left to say.
1:39.8	Agrarian terrorism has definitely taken over our state.
1:43.8	Agrarian terrorism, that's the perspective of the large landowners.
1:49.8	Now in stark contrast, listen to this.
1:53.8	From one of the days, the perpetrators of Agrarian terrorism.
1:57.8	He's small farm or Lenny Castillo.
2:01.8	Before we lived in the town of Urachići, but we didn't have work.
2:04.8	We didn't have anywhere to produce anything.
2:06.8	So we rescued the land to produce for our town, for our states, and for our country.
2:10.8	So what is it? Agrarian terrorism or long overdue social justice?
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