Organoponic farming revolution
CARACAS, Venezuela - In a conference room at Venezuela's military academy, a group of soldiers listens attentively to a duo of Cuban instructors.
The topic being taught is not revolutionary guerrilla warfare as once practiced by Fidel Castro or ''Che'' Guevara, but the ''organoponic farming revolution,'' communist Cuba's latest export to its closest South American ally, Venezuela.
Inspired by Cuba's system of urban market gardens, which has been operating for several years, left-wing President Hugo Chavez has ordered the creation of similar intensive city plots across Venezuela in a bid to develop food self-sufficiency in the world's No. 5 oil exporter.