Venezuelans Cultivating Chavez’s Revolution With Garden Ministry
- Self-sufficiency becomes necessity in nation of empty shelves
- Critics say programs will do little to solve food shortages
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Francisco Salazar has long taken Hugo Chavez’s harangues against capitalism to heart. Heeding the late socialist leader’s call for self-sufficiency, he grows everything from garlic to green peppers from his modest home in southern Caracas.
“A revolution is not made simply sitting in an office,” Salazar said one recent morning while he and his neighbors weeded beds of onions and lettuce on the roof of their public housing block.