Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

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Verso, 2005 - 315 من الصفحات
"The only first-hand report on contemporary Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, by veteran correspondent Richard Gott, places the country's controversial and charismatic president in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. This new edition has a chapter on the attempted and failed military coup, Venezuela's recent recall election, and discusses US covert intervention against this democratically elected public official. The spectre of Simon Bolivar hovers once again over Latin America as the aims and ambitions of the Liberator are taken up by Chavez. 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 half a century, and dramatically affected the political debate throughout Latin America."--BOOK JACKET.
 

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Map of Venezuela xxi
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PORTRAIT OF A PRESIDENT
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A baseball game in Havana November 1999
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The disintegration of the ancien régime
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Provincial origins in Barinas
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the irresistible flight from the
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PREPARING FOR A BOLIVARIAN REBELLION
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The development of a military conspiracy
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Politics in Guayana and the rise of La Causa R
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Chávezs election victory December 1998
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CHÁVEZ IN POWER THE EARLY YEARS 20 The Constitutional Assembly and the new constitution
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When the heavens opened
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Planning for an endogenous agricultural future
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The new politics of oil
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Divisions over the economic programme
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Reforming the judiciary
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experiments in civilmilitary cooperation
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rebellion in Caracas the Caracazo
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the neoliberal package that destroyed
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The debate between military and civilian revolutionaries
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The military intervention of Chávez February 1992
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The failed coup détat of Admiral Grüber November 1992
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The Patriotic Front of civilian revolutionaries
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Latin Americas experience of radical military rebellion
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RECOVERING THE REVOLUTIONARY TRADITIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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The legacy of Simón Bolívar the Liberator
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Robinson Crusoe and the philosophy of Simón Rodríguez
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Ezequiel Zamora invokes horror a la oligarquía
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ORGANISING THE OVERTHROW OF
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ANCIEN RÉGIME BY PEACEFUL MEANS 19921998
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Developing a Bolivarian foreign policy
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the violent neighbour
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New rights for indigenous peoples
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The changing character of the opposition
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The old trade unions oppose the revolution October 2001
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THE THREE OPPOSITION ATTEMPTS TO OVERTHROW THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION
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The revolutionary decrees of November 2001 the
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the coup and countercoup of
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The atmosphere after the April coup
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April 2002
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the
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THE MILITARY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
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Bibliography
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Richard Gott is a former Latin America correspondent and features editor for the "Guardian." A specialist in Latin American affairs, his books include "Cuba: A New History, Guerrilla Movements in Latin America, The Appeasers" (with Martin Gilbert), "Land Without Evil," "Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution," and "Britain's Empire." He is currently an honorary research fellow at the institute for the study of the Americas at the University of London.

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