Academic and research articles on Environment, Forestry and Natural Resources published by Department of Forestry and Environment Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. These were abstracts presented at Annual Forestry and Environment Symposium. Compiled by Dr Hiran Amarasekera

The “Bolivarian Revolution” is Chavez’s commitment to twenty first- century socialism.” Named after Simon Bolivar, the early eighteenth-century Latin American revolutionary leader in the South American wars of independence, the “Bolivarian Revolution” names the desire to bring about Bolivar’s dream of a united Latin America. While for Bolivar the union of Latin America was against the Spanish oppressors, for Chavez the unification is against the U.S. neoliberal and military impositions that, together with the “dictatorship of the Monetary Fund,” have reduced the region to a great slum, that is, the discharge of capitalism. As we can predict, it is just from these slums that Chavez receives most of his electoral support, as his political initiatives are all directed toward the weakest population. When Chavez finally managed to secure control over the oil resources after the coup against him in 2002, he obliged Venezuela’s largest oil company PdVSA, to distribute oil wealth throughout the

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