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Correspondence
Nature 421, 473 (30 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/421473a
Venezuelan researchers call for international help
C. Mendoza, (president)1 & J. A. Urbina, (secretary general)1
- Association of Investigators of IVIC, Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research, PO Box 21827, Caracas 1020A, Venezuela
Abstract
Political conflict is endangering human life, scientific endeavour and a rich environment.
Venezuela has entered 2003 deadlocked in a dangerous political confrontation and a general strike that has lasted two months so far. Scientific endeavour, like everything else, has been seriously disrupted by the crisis, partly because many researchers and postgraduate students support the strike, but more imminently because salaries, project funding and basic services such as gas, electricity, liquid nitrogen, transport and the Internet are no longer reliable.
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