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 Chavez, 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 Venezuelans-one an adviser in the Presidential Palace, and the other a journalist with a weekly column in one of Venezuela's leading newspapers-bring insiders' answers to outsiders' questions, such as: Is Chavez a dictator? What was the role of the Bush Administration in the 2002 military coup? What is Chavez's political platform? Does Chavez work with terrorist governments to undermine U.S. interests?
- ISBN10 1560257733
- ISBN13 9781560257738
- Publish Date 25 January 2006
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 15 August 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Thunder's Mouth Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 120
- Language English