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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... nationalist officers and a number of well - known left- wing journalists and intellectuals , many of whom had been supporters of Venezuela's Fidelista guerrilla movement in the 1960s . So corrupt and detested had the existing ...
... nationalist officers and a number of well - known left- wing journalists and intellectuals , many of whom had been supporters of Venezuela's Fidelista guerrilla movement in the 1960s . So corrupt and detested had the existing ...
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... nationalist issue of the Canal . He rebelled against the cor- ruption of the political elite , and he pushed through a land reform to try to benefit the peasants . The history of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s was so dominated by ...
... nationalist issue of the Canal . He rebelled against the cor- ruption of the political elite , and he pushed through a land reform to try to benefit the peasants . The history of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s was so dominated by ...
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... nationalist experiment of the Peruvian military during the government of General Velasco between 1968 and 1976. He had visited Peru as a young cadet in 1974 , although at a time when Velasco's ' Revolutionary Government of the Armed ...
... nationalist experiment of the Peruvian military during the government of General Velasco between 1968 and 1976. He had visited Peru as a young cadet in 1974 , although at a time when Velasco's ' Revolutionary Government of the Armed ...
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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