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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... live in constant fear for their property and their lives . More than a decade ago , in February 1989 , everyone's worst nightmares were realized . The poor from the surrounding hills descended for a week of indiscriminate looting ...
... live in constant fear for their property and their lives . More than a decade ago , in February 1989 , everyone's worst nightmares were realized . The poor from the surrounding hills descended for a week of indiscriminate looting ...
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... lives . But such cre- dentials are not so warmly approved by Venezuela's rich and tiny elite , whose Cuban friends live in Miami not Havana , and whose lives are spent in a permanent state of alarm about their property and their bank ...
... lives . But such cre- dentials are not so warmly approved by Venezuela's rich and tiny elite , whose Cuban friends live in Miami not Havana , and whose lives are spent in a permanent state of alarm about their property and their bank ...
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... live in Anzoátegui , and 6,000 in Apure . Some 26 different ethnic groups are believed to live in Venezuela and they have been given many names by settlers over the centuries . They deserve to be described by the names that they give ...
... live in Anzoátegui , and 6,000 in Apure . Some 26 different ethnic groups are believed to live in Venezuela and they have been given many names by settlers over the centuries . They deserve to be described by the names that they give ...
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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