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Venezuela’s International Role: Provider or Gadfly? Looking at Foreign Policy in Context

Sep 18, 2008 | International Relations, Venezuela

On September 20, 2006, a bulky, round-headed man climbed the steps to the speakers’ rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly hall in New York. For a few seconds he glared grimly at the audience and sniffed the air before speaking. “It still smells of sulphur here”, said Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, crossing himself. “That’s because the devil stood here yesterday.” He explained that the devil was one George W. Bush, …

Venezuela: Leading a New Trend in Latin America? An Internationalist Vision

Sep 18, 2008 | International Relations, Venezuela

Hugo Chávez was elected president of Venezuela in 1998 as the result of a demand for radical change expressed by Venezuelan voters. His election also appeared to mark a wave of New Left electoral victories as Latin Americans used the ballot box to express their frustration with failed promises of market opening and democratic restoration to improve living standards of Latin Americans in the 1980s and 1990s. Following Chávez’s …

The Social Policy of the Bolivarian Revolution: Mission Tricks

Sep 17, 2008 | Social Policy, Venezuela

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When presidential candidate Hugo Chávez won the elections in December 1998, a wave of optimism and hope swept through Venezuela, especially among its poor majority. Chávez’s triumph represented a fundamental change in the political life of one of the oldest democracies in Latin America. Chávez promised change and solutions for the country’s pressing problems, especially those related to poverty and inequality, …

Euro Cup and Revolution

Sep 17, 2008 | Social Policy, Venezuela

We’ve heard it all before. A white privileged minority exploits a non-white population until a charismatic leftist leader from the oppressed majority—thriving on class and racial tensions—leads a revolution to force the elite to pay for its sins. Given Venezuela’s oil wealth, the country’s high inequality is one more expression of the elite’s selfishness. This Robin Hood story, ubiquitous in much of the international press and forcefully …

Between Militarization and Compassion: Disaster Victims’ Assistance Policies After the Tragedy

Sep 17, 2008 | Social Policy, Venezuela

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The front page of the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional on December 6, 2000, showed the picture of a woman standing in front of an open, empty refrigerator, her back turned to the readers. The caption explained that the refrigerator belonged to displaced victims or “damnificados” of the December 1999 natural catastrophe known as “the Tragedy.” Massive floods and landslides had wracked the Venezuelan coast and the …

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Venezuela’s International Role: Provider or Gadfly? Looking at Foreign Policy in Context

Venezuela: Leading a New Trend in Latin America? An Internationalist Vision

The Social Policy of the Bolivarian Revolution: Mission Tricks

Euro Cup and Revolution

Between Militarization and Compassion: Disaster Victims’ Assistance Policies After the Tragedy