Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chavez GovernmentVenezuela under Hugo Chavez could be a model for peaceful revolutionor, as this definitive history shows, it could all be undone by the spectres of the past. Since coming to power in 1998, the Chavez government has inspired both fierce internal debate and horror amongst Western governments accustomed to counting on an obeisant regime in the oil-rich state. Is Venezuela going through a peaceful, democratic "Bolivarian revolution," with the country's poor becoming politically engaged and beginning to share its oil wealth? Or is Chavez leading his country towards Latin American caudillismo at best, or Castro-style communism at worst? In this rich and resourceful study, Greg Wilpert exposes the self-serving logic behind much middle-class opposition to Venezuela's elected leader, and explains the real reason for their alarm. He argues that the Chavez government has instituted one of the world's most progressive constitutions, but warns that they have yet to overcome the dangerous spectres of the country's past: its culture of patronage and clientelism, its corruption, and its support for personality cultsall of them fuelled by the attention and interference of a succession of US administrations. |
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Corruption is , of course , a problem that is endemic to most countries of Latin
America and thus does not make the Venezuelan situation distinctive or explain
why the political system collapsed there and not elsewhere ( though , eventually ,
it ...
Corruption is , of course , a problem that is endemic to most countries of Latin
America and thus does not make the Venezuelan situation distinctive or explain
why the political system collapsed there and not elsewhere ( though , eventually ,
it ...
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On the urging of various left leaders and with the particular help from Luis
Miquilena , a long - time operative of Venezuela ' s left , Chávez began
organizing a political party to help him run for president in the 1998 elections . He
thus ...
On the urging of various left leaders and with the particular help from Luis
Miquilena , a long - time operative of Venezuela ' s left , Chávez began
organizing a political party to help him run for president in the 1998 elections . He
thus ...
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Skeptics of how important Venezuela ' s new constitution is for the social and
political transformation of the country are quick to raise the point that most state
socialist countries had “ advanced ” constitutions , with extensive human rights
and ...
Skeptics of how important Venezuela ' s new constitution is for the social and
political transformation of the country are quick to raise the point that most state
socialist countries had “ advanced ” constitutions , with extensive human rights
and ...
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Governance Policy | 29 |
Economic Policy | 85 |
Social Policy | 105 |
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| Titre | Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Policies of the Chavez Government |
| Auteur | Gregory Wilpert |
| Éditeur | Verso, 2007 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université de Virginie |
| Numérisé | 3 juin 2008 |
| ISBN | 1844670716, 9781844670710 |
| Longueur | 312 pages |
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