Hugo Chávez: Venezuela’s Redeemer?

This piece was published in the May/June 2000 issue of the NACLA Report. At dusk, Carlos Andrés Pérez walked off the plane that

This piece was published in the May/June 2000 issue of the NACLA Report. On December 15, 1999, as Venezuelans voted to ratify the

After more than a year in power, Chávez retains a great deal of popular support, especially among the poor. But the hostility of the rich is strong —and growing.

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Hugo Chávez was sworn in as the democratically elected president of Venezuela on February 2, 1999—seven years almost to the

Peru's President Alberto Fujimori was scheduled to appear at a victory celebration on the evening of May 28, after electoral

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