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Venezuelanalysis News Summary #75 (8min, 37sec, English)

Venezuela Solid Despite Global Crisis - Venezuelan Government Takes Over Rice Plants that Evade Regulated Prices - Venezuela Inaugurates Water Pump and Commune - U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Says Venezuela Prepared for World Food Crisis - Venezuela Rejects U.S. Human Rights Report - Venezuela and Bolivia to Collaborate on Natural Gas Plant

On this week's show, we spent most of our time talking about Georgia, in light of the recent events there. We wanted to get beyond the headlines and usual frames of coverage, and believe we accomplished this through two approaches. First, we talked with Jodi Blumenfeld. A graduate student at the University of Illinois, she has participated in archaeological excavations in Georgia, and she spoke with us a little about Georgian culture, giving a more three-dimensional portrait of the country than is usually achieved in news coverage.

It's all foreign policy and international affairs this week. Starting with developments in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, then onto hawkish comments from Israel regarding Iran, the AIPAC-inspired resolutions moving through congress (mandating a blockade of Iran by the US), then briefly looking at developments in Iraq and Bolivia (where USAID has come under criticism for political interference).

It's all foreign policy and international affairs this week. Starting with developments in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, then onto hawkish comments from Israel regarding Iran, the AIPAC-inspired resolutions moving through congress (mandating a blockade of Iran by the US), then briefly looking at developments in Iraq and Bolivia (where USAID has come under criticism for political interference).