There is one country in the Americas that the Bush Administration regards as a significant threat to U. S. interests, and it is not Cuba. Oil-rich Venezuela's democratically-elected government has survived repeated, U. S. -supported attempts to undermine its power, including a short lived military coup. Its leader, President Hugo Chvez, is neither communist nor capitalist, and instead claims to be creating an alternative 21st Century socialism that courts international capital. What is the real story behind this leader of Latin America's lurch to the left? Is it a new petro-populism in the tradition of Peron and Fujimori, or is it truly a progressive, home-grown democratic revolution that will address the massive economic and social inequalities plaguing the region for more than three centuries? The curiosity of a North American living in Venezuela and the expertise of two Venezuelansone an adviser in the Presidential Palace, and the other a journalist with a weekly column in one of Venezuela's leading newspapersbring insiders' answers to outsiders' questions, such as: Is Chvez a dictator? What was the role of the Bush Administration in the 2002 military coup? What is Chvez's political platform? Does Chvez work with terrorist governments to undermine U. S. interests?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Thunder's Mouth Press
ISBN-13
9781560257738
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89574733
Product Key Features
Author
Chesa Boudin, Wilmer Rumbo, Gabriel Gonzales
Publication Name
The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions-100 Answers
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
178mm
Item Width
127mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Chesa Boudin, Gabriel Gonzales, Wilmer Rumbo
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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