Ruling elites in
Venezuela, the United States and Europe, and even Hugo Cháaacute;vez
himself though for different reasons, have been eager to have the world
view him as the heir to Fidel Castro. But the truth
about this increasingly influential world leader is more
complex, and more interesting.. The Cháaacute;vez that emerges from Bart
Jones' carefully researched and documented biography is neither a
plaster saint nor a revolutionary
tyrant. He has an undeniably autocratic streak, and yet has been freely
and fairly re-elected to his nations presidency three times with
astonishing margins of victory. He is a master politician and an
inspired improviser, a Bolivarian nationalist
and an unashamed socialist. His policies have brought him into conflict
with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and major oil
companies. They have also provided a
model for new governments and social movements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and
Argentina. When in September 2006 he declared at the United Nations
that ‘the devil came here yesterday … the President of the
United States', it was clear that he was taking on
challenging the most powerful nation on earth, in conscious imitation of
the Liberator, Simon Bolivar.
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