Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Hazel Marsh — Venezuela’s long history of racism is coming back to haunt it


The back story. 

Similar in Brazil and other Latin American countries. In Brazil the Carnival queen was deposed for being too black.

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Venezuela’s long history of racism is coming back to haunt it
Hazel Marsh

1 comment:

Dan Lynch said...

And related to that is Venezuela's very high inequality (Gini=.39 as of 2011). Most of Latin America has high inequality.

That's almost as bad as the U.S. (Gini=.47).