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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... army installations were filled with tents . Soldiers manned soup kitchens and started to build houses for refugees on army land . While room might have been found for the homeless on the spacious grounds of the Caracas Country Club ...
... army installations were filled with tents . Soldiers manned soup kitchens and started to build houses for refugees on army land . While room might have been found for the homeless on the spacious grounds of the Caracas Country Club ...
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... army , for he had not found it to be as he had expected . ' I'm not going to go on like this in the army all my life , ' he declared . Chávez then suggested to Urdaneta that perhaps they should try something different . ' Why don't we ...
... army , for he had not found it to be as he had expected . ' I'm not going to go on like this in the army all my life , ' he declared . Chávez then suggested to Urdaneta that perhaps they should try something different . ' Why don't we ...
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... army at the battle of Pichincha on 24 May 1822 , and Quito fell the following day . Bolívar arrived three weeks later , on 16 June , and then moved down to Guayaquil . The three territories of Gran Colombia had now been liberated from ...
... army at the battle of Pichincha on 24 May 1822 , and Quito fell the following day . Bolívar arrived three weeks later , on 16 June , and then moved down to Guayaquil . The three territories of Gran Colombia had now been liberated from ...
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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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