In the Shadow of the Liberator

Hugo Chavez and the Transformation of Venezuela

By: Richard Gott

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Paperback | 17 October 2001 | Edition Number 1

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In a first-hand report from Venezuela, veteran correspondent Richard Gott places the country's controversial President in historical perspective. Examining Chavez's plans and programs and the support and opposition these attract, Gott argues that this unique experiment may prove a new way forward for Latin America. 'Many people thought if I became president it would mean the return of Hitler and Mussolini rolled into one . . . the imagined disaster has not taken place.'Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela. The spectre of Simon Bolivar hovers once again over Latin America as the aims and ambitions of the Liberator are taken up by Comandante Hugo Chavez, the charismatic and controversial President of Venezuela. Welcomed by the inhabitants of the teeming shanty towns of Caracas as their potential savior, 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. In a first-hand report from Venezuela, veteran correspondent Richard Gott places the Comandante in historical perspective, and examines his plans and programs. He describes the support and opposition that these attract, and argues that this unique experiment may prove a new way forward for Latin America.

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"A colourful and readable account of Chavez's background and beliefs."--"Financial Times""Chavez, as Richard Gott's readable profile makes clear, is no ordinary "caudillo"."--"Time Higher Education Supplement""Gott is always and interesting, well-informed, and engaging writer. Washington would be wise to pay attention to this account, since Chavez's radical nationalism ... is presumably raising eyebrows in Foggy Bottom and Langley."--"Foreign Affairs""Little is known in detail of Chavez's life, career, and ideas. This study ... begins to fill the gaps."--"Multicultural Review""This book shows its author back on top form as a supreme interpreter of Latin America."--"The Independent""This timely book will be eagerly devoured by all those who wish to understand Latin America's new radicalism."--"New Statesman"

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Acknowledgements	p. v
Map of Venezuela	p. viii
Introduction: the rains fall	p. 1
Preparing for Power
November 1999: a game of baseball in Havana	p. 25
The military promotions of Hugo Chavez	p. 34
February 1989 (1): the rebellion in Caracas, the Caracazo	p. 44
February 1989 (2): the economic 'packet' that destroyed the presidency of Carlos Andres Perez	p. 50
Douglas Bravo and the debate between soldiers and civilians	p. 59
4 February 1992: the 'military intervention' of Chavez	p. 66
27 November 1992: the coup by Admiral Hernan Gruber	p. 74
Luis Miquilena and the Patriotic Front of 1989	p. 80
Torrijos, Velasco and the tradition of military rebellion in Latin America	p. 86
Recovering the Past
The legacy of Simon Bolivar	p. 97
Robinson Crusoe and the philosophy of Simon Rodriguez	p. 109
Ezequiel Zamora invokes 'horror a la oligarquia'	p. 118
Preparing the Overthrow of the Ancien Regime
Yare prison, 1992-1994, and the search for political allies	p. 127
La Causa R, Patria Para Todos and politics in Guayana	p. 133
The presidential election of 1998	p. 143
Chavez in Power
The formation of a Constituent Assembly	p. 153
Manuel Quijada and the reform of the judiciary	p. 160
Ali Rodriguez Araque and the new politics of oil	p. 164
The economic programme of the Chavez government	p. 172
A new agricultural future for Venezuela	p. 179
Jose Vicente Rangel and the conduct of foreign affairs	p. 190
Civil war in Colombia: the future of the Bolivarian dream	p. 200
New rights for indigenous peoples	p. 209
Teodoro Petkoff and the opposition to Chavez	p. 216
Epilogue: The military and civil society	p. 223
The rights of indigenous peoples	p. 230
Sauce of wonder	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 236
Index	p. 239
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