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=Pre Chavez Economy=
<center>| [[Venezuela's Economy]] |</center>
'''Colonial Economy:
 
*Spanish expenditionaries arrived in what is present-day Venezuela in 1498, but generally neglated the area because of its apparent lack of mineral wealth
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*This time was dominated by a plantation culture, more closely resembling the systems of the Carribbean Islands than that of a South American territory
 
*Colonial authorities organized the local Indians into an encomienda system to grow tobacco, cotten, indigo, and cocoa
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<center>[[History of Venezuela]] </center>

Latest revision as of 16:58, 4 May 2006