Hazel Henderson, Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators

As a frequent visitor to Venezuela through many different regimes, including that of Hugo Chavez, I see him as genuinely trying a model of development beyond the ” Washington Consensus” . I observed the attempted coup first hand, which would have been much worse, had it succeeded, and the subsequent efforts by the Fedecamera and the PDVSA mgmt to try to unseat Chavez by destroying the economy. Since neither of these attempts by the ” oligarchs” succeeded, it’s time to give Chavez , despite some of his faults, a chance ,since he is democratically elected. So I think you might adjust your obvious bias in favor of the “Washington Consensus” orthodoxy, and admit that a new wave of resource nationalism is sweeping Latin America, not just Venezuela.