In the Shadow of the Liberator: Hugo Chávez and the Transformation of VenezuelaVerso, 2000 - 246 من الصفحات In a first-hand report from Venezuela, veteran correspondent Richard Gott places the country's controversial President in historical perspective. Examining Chavez's plans and programs and the support and opposition these attract, Gott argues that this unique experiment may prove a new way forward for Latin America. 'Many people thought if I became president it would mean the return of Hitler and Mussolini rolled into one ... the imagined disaster has not taken place.'Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. 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 savior, 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 half a century, and dramatically affected the political debate throughout Latin America. In a first-hand report from Venezuela, veteran correspondent Richard Gott places the Comandante in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. He describes the support and opposition that these attract, and argues that this unique experiment may prove a new way forward for 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 country what it wants to hear , and making the right kind of reassur- ing noises that will not frighten the foreign investors . In this , of course , he has the warm support of Fidel Castro . According to Fausto Masa , a ...
... nationalist country what it wants to hear , and making the right kind of reassur- ing noises that will not frighten the foreign investors . In this , of course , he has the warm support of Fidel Castro . According to Fausto Masa , a ...
المحتوى
Grüber | 61 |
Luís Miquilena and the Patriotic Front of 1989 | 83 |
The legacy of Simón Bolívar | 97 |
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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