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Students visit Venezuela during Winter Break
January 2007
In January 2007, 19 Dickinson students and six faculty members and friends of Dickinson spent two and a half weeks in Venezuela armed with video cameras and notepads to visit with authors and government leaders and to get a sense of how ordinary people are participating in the transformation of their own society. The group visited numerous destinations from the capital, Caracas, to the cacao plantations of Choroní interviewing educators, students, doctors, farmers and members of the media, women's groups, cultural organizations and cooperatives.

The trip was organized as part of the class Venezuela: Democracy, Development and the Bolivarian Process taught by Susan Rose, professor of sociology, and Sinan Koont, associate professor of economics.
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Students in Venezuela.
Students visit La Alianza Cooperative, started by landless peasants and radical priests.

Students in Venezuela.
Dickinson students Nalylee Padilla '09 (center) and Alexis Henry '09 dance with Charlie Hardy, author of Cowboy in Caracas.

Students in Venezuela.
Manuel Saralegui '09 and Lonna Malmsheimer, professor of American studies, interview Father Mario and a Venezuelan college student, Sandino,in Monte Carmelo.

Students in Venezuela.
Katherine Miller '09, Darcy McDonald '09, Meghan Erdman '09, Rachel Finan '09, Abigail Frackenpohl '09 and Jennifer Megargell '09 on the road between Sanare and Monte Carmelo.

Students in Venezuela.
 Front row (left to right): Nalylee Padilla '09 and Diane Lazar '09.
Back row (left to right): Katherine Miller '09, Meghan Erdman '09, Lindsey Hazel '09, Darcy McDonald '09, Judith Lopez '09, Alexis Henry '09 and Jessica Baverman '09.

Students in Venezuela.

Students in Venezuela.
Nalylee Padilla '09 shows her affection for a larger-than-life picture of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Students in Venezuela.
Katherine Miller '09 poses for a photo in a coffee plantation.

Students in Venezuela.
Students sort cacao beans in the plantations of Barlovento.

Students in Venezuela.
The view from guide Lisa Sullivan's house.







(Left) Abigail Frackenpohl '09 and Katherine Miller '09 join in drumming at the Centro San Juan in Barquisimeto.