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Cooking with El Presidente - Venezuela (4/5)


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Subjects: Anthropology, Human Rights, Political Science, Social Studies, South American Studies

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No		 Running Time: 30 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 2007
Available in French: No

In Venezuela, Stefan discovers a precariously polarised country and sees how President Chavez uses food as a political tool. Are his reforms really making a difference to the poorest people? Finally he meets the man himself on Chavez's weekly six hour TV show, ‘Alo Presidente', and cooks him his favourite dish: capybara, a giant guinea pig thought to be the largest rodent in the world.

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