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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... armed forces . The Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement of Colonel Chávez was by no means the only politicized grouping within ... air force , developed by Lieutenant William Izarra , a revolutionary officer with Trotskyist leanings who had ...
... armed forces . The Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement of Colonel Chávez was by no means the only politicized grouping within ... air force , developed by Lieutenant William Izarra , a revolutionary officer with Trotskyist leanings who had ...
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... armed forces , and the outspoken way in which senior officers were prepared to voice their preoccupations to their indecisive political masters . General Ochoa told the two admirals that he was concerned about the situation inside the armed ...
... armed forces , and the outspoken way in which senior officers were prepared to voice their preoccupations to their indecisive political masters . General Ochoa told the two admirals that he was concerned about the situation inside the armed ...
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... armed forces . On the one hand , the military are remembered as the essential and historic bulwark against the rebel- lious indigenous Indian population whose lands were stolen by set- tlers over the centuries . In this context , the ...
... armed forces . On the one hand , the military are remembered as the essential and historic bulwark against the rebel- lious indigenous Indian population whose lands were stolen by set- tlers over the centuries . In this context , the ...
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Map of Venezuela | 1 |
a game of baseball in Havana | 25 |
The military promotions of Hugo Chávez | 34 |
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Acción Democrática Apure Arias Cárdenas armed forces army Barinas began Bogotá Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement Bolivia Caldera campaign Caracas Caracazo Carlos Andrés Pérez Causa cent century Chávez government civilian Colombia Colonel Chávez Communist Party Congress Constituent Assembly constitution Copei corruption country's Cuba Cuban December Disip Douglas Bravo economic Ecuador elections Ezequiel Zamora Farc February Fidel Fifth Republic Movement foreign Grüber Guayana guerrilla Hugo Chávez indigenous José Vicente Rangel land later Latin America leader left-wing Liberator llanos Luís Miquilena Maracaibo Maracay ment Mérida minister Miraflores Palace moved nationalist neo-liberalism officers oil company Opec organized Orinoco Panama peasants Pérez Jiménez Peru Petkoff Petróleos de Venezuela plans political politicians President Chávez President Pérez presidential prison programme radical rebellion reform revolution Rodríguez Araque shanty towns Simón Bolívar Simón Rodríguez social soldiers Spanish Teodoro Petkoff tion Torrijos union United Urdaneta Velasco Velásquez Zulia