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Correspondence
Nature 421, 786 (20 February 2003) | doi:10.1038/421786a
Venezuelan government is backing science
Juan Luis Cabrera1, Luis Emilio Guerrero2 & Arnaldo Donoso1
- Centro de Física, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Apartado 21827, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela
- Departamento de Física, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89000, Caracas 1080-A, Venezuela
Mendoza et al. in Correspondence (Nature 421, 473; 2003) ask for help in the name of the Venezuelan scientific community, in view of the current turmoil in our country. However, as we show here, the real figures tell a different story, pointing to the efforts made by the current government, which has been in power since 1999, to satisfy the demands of the scientific sector.
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