May 27th 2009, by Jan Ullrich – Venezuelanalysis.com
In 2007, ten organized communities in different Venezuelan states put
into practice the idea of local solidarity-based interchange networks,
called trueques (barter rings). Almost 2,000 people have joined
these networks in order to establish a new communal relationship
between production and consumption.
May 21st 2009, by Jan Ullrich – Venezuelanalysis.com
Certainly, the Chavez government has broken with the neoliberal agenda
of the preceding decades. But has it developed instead a shift toward a
participatory and democratic economy as the core of 21st Century
Socialism?
