Revision as of 23:38, 30 April 2006

Pre Chavez Economy

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