6/30/2023 0 Comments 23 things they don t![]() government as its personal ATM for six years, withdraws upward of $20 billion in Iraq contracts alone, refuses to hire local workers either on the Gulf coast or in Iraq, then expresses its gratitude to U.S. Yet in an era when Halliburton treats the U.S. ![]() Chavez’s many critics have derided these initiatives as handouts and unfair subsidies, of course. It’s a reverse of the logic of government outsourcing – rather than auctioning off pieces of the state to large corporations and losing democratic control, the people who use the resources are given the power to manage them, creating, at least in theory, both jobs and more responsive public services. Many are pieces of state infrastructure – toll booths, highway maintenance, health clinics – handed over to the communities to run. ![]() By 2006, there were roughly 100,000 co-operatives in the country, employing more than 700,000 workers. “In Venezuela Chavez has made the co-ops a top political priority, giving them first refusal on government contracts and offering them economic incentives to trade with one another. ![]()
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