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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... happened , the Caracazo of February 1989 proved to be the ' significant development ' among the mass of the people that they had been half expecting , although neither the civilians nor the military were prepared for it . Throughout the ...
... happened , the Caracazo of February 1989 proved to be the ' significant development ' among the mass of the people that they had been half expecting , although neither the civilians nor the military were prepared for it . Throughout the ...
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... happened ? Admiral Hernán Grüber , March 1992 With Colonel Chávez behind bars after his ' military intervention ' in February 1992 , the second coup attempt later the same year seemed almost like a coda to the first , though it was ...
... happened ? Admiral Hernán Grüber , March 1992 With Colonel Chávez behind bars after his ' military intervention ' in February 1992 , the second coup attempt later the same year seemed almost like a coda to the first , though it was ...
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... happened in the rural areas of China and Chile , of Vietnam and Peru , and Cuba . Torrijos was a great admirer of Fidel , but he said that he didn't agree with everything being done there . " They should have left the peasants with a ...
... happened in the rural areas of China and Chile , of Vietnam and Peru , and Cuba . Torrijos was a great admirer of Fidel , but he said that he didn't agree with everything being done there . " They should have left the peasants with a ...
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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