Posted by Admin in African Diaspora, Art and Culture, Citizen Diplomacy, Guest Posts, Latin America, Trip Participant Stories on 31st July, 2012 | No Comments
Global Exchange Scholarship recipient Lea Murray participated in a Reality Tours delegation to Venezuela last month. Sounds like she’s a changed woman since the trip! Read how.
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Posted by Admin in Citizen Diplomacy, Guest Posts, Latin America, Trip Participant Stories on 25th July, 2012 | 1 Comment
The following post was written by B.C. based trade union researcher Blair Redlin who recently took part in a Global Exchange delegation to Venezuela. Here’s his report back from his Venezuelan travels.
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Posted by Alessandro I. in Latin America, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 17th July, 2007 | No Comments
By Lowell Blankfort It is twilight and, as April and I sit back on their terrace sipping wine with John Pate and his wife, we enjoy a sense of tranquility hardly experienced in our almost three weeks in Venezuela. Below us lies a verdant valley, framed by a wooded green mountain which mercifully blocks the »
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Posted by Alessandro I. in Latin America, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 21st February, 2007 | No Comments
By Natasha Mayers Just back from a two-week study tour in Venezuela with Global Exchange, I am inspired by what we heard and saw. Many Venezuelans urged us to let people here know that “Democracy is alive and well in Venezuela”, “there’s no dictator here”, “for the first time we have hope”, and “we don’t »
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Posted by Alessandro I. in Latin America, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 20th May, 2006 | No Comments
By Geoff Bottoms PUBLISHED IN THE UK MORNING STAR SATURDAY 20TH MAY 2006 Charlie Hardy is a former US Catholic priest who spent eight years living among the poor of Caracas in a house of compressed cardboard without sanitation during the dying days of Venezuela’s ancien regime that were triggered by the Caracazo or social »
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Posted by Alessandro I. in Latin America, Regions We Visit, Trip Participant Stories on 27th April, 2005 | No Comments
By Barry Freeman Published in The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) CHAPEL HILL–Venezuela has become a global hot spot. I have just returned from there, and want to share some information not readily available. I went with a group under the auspices of a Global Exchange study tour. We met with various government officials, »
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