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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... shanty towns - seemed to have a timeless quality to it , as though this was an issue that presidents and colonial viceroys in Latin America had been wrestling with for centuries . I knew that the December tragedy had demonstrated the ...
... shanty towns - seemed to have a timeless quality to it , as though this was an issue that presidents and colonial viceroys in Latin America had been wrestling with for centuries . I knew that the December tragedy had demonstrated the ...
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... shanty towns , of the suburban areas of the city . Military intelligence ( the DIM ) was by all accounts better informed . It knew that some- thing was up and had warned the government that the Monday might well be a difficult day . Yet ...
... shanty towns , of the suburban areas of the city . Military intelligence ( the DIM ) was by all accounts better informed . It knew that some- thing was up and had warned the government that the Monday might well be a difficult day . Yet ...
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... shanty town is highly ambitious , for Venezuela is still a society of gangsters and looters - as the reports of the December disaster made plain . In their unruly behaviour , the young in the shanty towns are only following the example ...
... shanty town is highly ambitious , for Venezuela is still a society of gangsters and looters - as the reports of the December disaster made plain . In their unruly behaviour , the young in the shanty towns are only following the example ...
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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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