in argentina, a "right turn" that wasn't and left-peronism's unlikely
Latin America’s “left turn,” which started in 1998 with the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, is not over, even though its obituary has been written several times. ..…
Latin America’s “left turn,” which started in 1998 with the election of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, is not over, even though its obituary has been written several times. ..…
Correa was swept to power in 2006 as part of the “pink revolution” which swept Latin America at that stage. He was a close ally of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and promised a “citizens’ revolution”. ..…
The effort made by Fidel of the unity and integration began to fruit with the arrival of Hugo Chavez to Presidency of Venezuela in 1998, and real change Latin America was on the agenda. In 2004, Chávez and Fidel would create what is now known Mar del Plata,..…
… autocratic demagogues in the Chavez mode get away with [it] until their countries become totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, or Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia… Let us not give President Chavez a chance to do the same step- by-step transformation of Venezuela… ...…
… autocratic demagogues in the Chavez mode get away with [it] until their countries become totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, or Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia… Let us not give President Chavez a chance to do the same step- by-step transformation of Venezuela… ...…
It remains the site of the largest US military base in Latin America at Soto Cano. . Much the same US personnel involved in the 2002 coup against Chavez in Venezuela under George W. ..…
The success of the popular nationalist and populist movements led to democratic elections won by progressive and leftist Presidents throughout Latin America, especially Venezuela. . Venezuela: Democratic Election, Social Reforms and the Election of President Chavez . ..…
The success of the popular nationalist and populist movements led to democratic elections won by progressive and leftist Presidents throughout Latin America, especially V enezuela. . Venezuela: Democratic Election, Social Reforms and the Election of President Chavez . ..…
The success of the popular nationalist and populist movements led to democratic elections won by progressive and leftist Presidents throughout Latin America, especially Venezuela. . Venezuela: Democratic Election, Social Reforms and the Election of President Chavez . ..…
Simon Bolivar would be the inspiration for Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian revolution who for a time came close to realizing Bolivar’s dream of a united and liberated Latin America. . Chavez’s vision embraced not just Latin America but the islands of the Caribbean..…
Shea has had a long history with Central America, and Latin America in general. He went to Venezuela in 2006 and met Hugo Chavez. He also has been to Nicaragua to meet with the revolutionary government and actors in that country which overthrew a despotic dictator,..…
La Rinconada is like tremendous warning this is how Venezuela and Bolivia used to be before Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales. This is where Washington wants Latin America to return to. Like those monstrous and hopeless slums surrounding Lima, La Rinconada should be call to..…
This may explain the Chavistas’ repeated electoral successes; their long rule allowed Venezuela to rebuild its failing institutions through an open and participatory constituent process with frequent elections — so many that former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva observed: ‘They’re..…
It's ironic to most Latin Americans that I talk to, that Donald Trump. Venezuela under Hugo Chavez became the engine of Bolivarian Latin America which achieved and sustained independence from the bad old days of western interference - the period when U.S..…
Chávez attempted an alternative in Venezuela and, worse for the United States, through the Bolivarian project across Latin America. ..…
But an even more urgent motivation for U.S. imperialism to force regime change in Venezuela is to put an end to the anti-imperialist role Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has played in Latin America. Since the ascendance of President Hugo Chávez to power in 1999, the..…
Canadian government's desire to bolster fledgling free-market democracies Latin America in competition with left-leaning, authoritarian nationalists like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is expressed with force, even. ..…
Aside from the stated reasons for recognizing Guaido now, analysts said shifting political winds in Latin America have increased the pressure on Maduro. . . When Venezuela's previous president, Hugo Chavez, faced attempts to topple his government in 2012 with U.S...…
Under Chavez, Venezuela had a policy of welcoming refugees. President Chavez turned Venezuela into the wealthiest society in Latin America with the best income equality. . ..…
Under Chavez, Venezuela had a policy of welcoming refugees. President Chavez turned Venezuela into the wealthiest society in Latin America with the best income equality. . ..…
Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, adopted socialist economic policies that transformed Venezuela from one of Latin America’s most prosperous countries into an utterly dysfunctional nightmare. In an effort to preserve their political rule, Chavez and Maduro..…
Under Chavez, Venezuela had a policy of welcoming refugees. President Chavez turned Venezuela into the wealthiest society in Latin America with the best income equality. . ..…
This includes the US government's support of the 2002 Venezuelan coup that led to the temporary ouster of the legitimately-elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. These imperial interventions must stop immediately; the future of the Venezuelan people, and the broader prosperity of..…
Poverty was cut from 48.6 percent in 2002 to 29.5 percent by 2011, while at the time of Chavez’s death Venezuela had the lowest rate of income inequality of any country in Latin America. . In order to achieve such outstanding outcomes, the Chavez government moved..…
In fact, Cuba managed, despite US policy, to support social-economic change in Latin America, especially in cooperation with Chavez in Venezuela. How do you see Cuba today, especially in relation to its Latin American neighbours? ..…
Oil-rich Venezuela was once among Latin America's wealthiest nations. ... While Maduro's popularity has plunged amid scarcities, hyperinflation and rising authoritarianism that have sparked a mass emigration, supporters who receive government subsidies in shantytowns continue to..…
The first decade of the new millennium saw the radical and reforming left come to government across Latin America. Hugo Chávez began what became known as the ‘pink tide’, when he won power in Venezuela in 1998. ..…
When Lula [Brazil’s former leftist president Luiz Inácio da Silva] was elected, it set the trend across Latin America that [Venezuela’s late socialist leader Hugo] Chávez never could.” . ..…
Cuba has wiped out illiteracy, and Cubans enjoy one of the highest life expectancies in Latin America. . People hold up images showing Fidel Castro, second from right, Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez, center, and Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto 'Che' Guevara,..…
Latin America’s Left Turns . Over the last 15 years, different left turns reshaped the region’s landscape. Chronologically, Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez got the party started for the Latin American left. ..…
Likewise, the author also stresses the fact that 95% of the Colombian drugs bound for Europe and the U.S. depart from Venezuela. Blasco also confirms the point that I raised in my book “Latin America in the Post Chavez Era”, which has been brought first by the scholar..…
The major change that has occurred in the development of Hezbollah's relations with Latin America between 2006 and now is that it has expanded its sphere of influence, thanks to Iranian diplomacy with Argentina and, especially, Venezuela, where Hugo Chávez allowed them to establish..…
Venezuela's Chavez touts strengthening Russian ties MOSCOW -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in interview broadcast Sunday that Latin America needs friendship with Russia to help reduce U.S influence and keep in the region. ..…