In the Shadow of the Liberator: Hugo Chávez and the Transformation of VenezuelaVerso, 2000 - 246 من الصفحات The spectre of Simon Bolivar hovers once again over Latin America as the aims and ambitions of the Liberator are taken up by Comandante Hugo Chavez, the charismatic and controversial President of Venezuela. Welcomed by the inhabitants of the teeming shanty towns of Caracas as their potential saviour, and greeted by Washington with considerable alarm, this former golpista-turned-democrat has already begun the most wide-ranging transformation of oil-rich Venezuela for 500 years, and has dramatically affected the political debate throughout Latin America. |
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... Mérida . Mérida is an alpine town , spread along a broad valley and sur- rounded by green mountains . Not much remains of the old colonial structure , but it still retains the charm of a small university town , where the youthful ...
... Mérida . Mérida is an alpine town , spread along a broad valley and sur- rounded by green mountains . Not much remains of the old colonial structure , but it still retains the charm of a small university town , where the youthful ...
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... Mérida has always been a leftist centre , and after the collapse of the guerrilla movements of the 1960s many former guerrillas came to live in and around the town . While some of the guerrilla survivors had regrouped in the 1970s in ...
... Mérida has always been a leftist centre , and after the collapse of the guerrilla movements of the 1960s many former guerrillas came to live in and around the town . While some of the guerrilla survivors had regrouped in the 1970s in ...
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... Mérida in 1937 , Rodríguez Araque studied law and economics at the Universidad Central in Caracas and the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida . He had fought in the hills of Falcón state in the 1960s with Douglas Bravo , but after the ...
... Mérida in 1937 , Rodríguez Araque studied law and economics at the Universidad Central in Caracas and the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida . He had fought in the hills of Falcón state in the 1960s with Douglas Bravo , but after the ...
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