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Activist and Howard University student Benjamin Woods said he stands in solidarity with Venezuela’s president. Woods said he is working to bring the principles of Chavez’s Bolivarian Circles to the community organization in his own working-class DC neighborhood.“If you take a neighborhood association that exists in Columbia Heights or Park U that are up the road, in Venezuela they would have much more power and say so in the government instead of people feeling alienated,” Woods said. 

Under Chavez, Venezuela was the only country on track to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty in 12 years.“One of the things we can learn from Venezuela is that everything is not built on how much you can make and how much you can keep for yourself,” Hagler said. “Right now, politicians only want to talk about the middle class, and don't want to talk about those who are poor, those who are marginalized.” 

The US announced $13.9 billion in cuts to food stamp programs this year, as Venezuela fed 15 million people through its Mercal program, Hagler remarked.  President Barack Obama also announced cuts to maternal and child healthcare benefits, while 17 million out of 26 million Venezuelans now receive free healthcare.Congress proposed $5 billion in cuts to education, while Chavez’s education programs have included 4 million previously marginalized Venezuelans, a quarter of whom receive educational scholarships.Despite the anti-Venezuela rhetoric on Capitol Hill, Hagler said the US has much to learn from a country that focuses on social spending.

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