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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... important task , and provided with a team of university researchers . They interviewed a large number of senior politicians and generals , both in retirement and in active service , and they also sent questionnaires to 5,000 servicemen ...
... important task , and provided with a team of university researchers . They interviewed a large number of senior politicians and generals , both in retirement and in active service , and they also sent questionnaires to 5,000 servicemen ...
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... important role in the downfall of Pérez Jiménez in 1958 , and in the more distant past a similar front was created in the 1850s , in the days of Ezequiel Zamora . - The Venezuelan elite has often liked to think of its country as ' a ...
... important role in the downfall of Pérez Jiménez in 1958 , and in the more distant past a similar front was created in the 1850s , in the days of Ezequiel Zamora . - The Venezuelan elite has often liked to think of its country as ' a ...
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... important sections of the Venezuelan left in the years since the 1940s . Miquilena remains the most significant spokesman of this tradition , though it touched some of the other participants in the Patri- otic Front of 1989 . Apart from ...
... important sections of the Venezuelan left in the years since the 1940s . Miquilena remains the most significant spokesman of this tradition , though it touched some of the other participants in the Patri- otic Front of 1989 . Apart 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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