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In 1970, Venezuela had been one of the 20 wealthiest countries in the world measured by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita; Pérez turned the country "into a socialist nightmare of price ...
The Bolivarian Revolution is an ongoing political process in Venezuela that was started by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, the founder of the Fifth Republic Movement and later the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), and his successor Nicolás Maduro.
The Venezuelan crisis underscores a lesson that has been lost in modern American politics: When extremes dominate the narrative, critical nuances are overlooked, and the potential for compromise ...
The US government supported the 1971 coup led by General Hugo Banzer that toppled President Juan José Torres of Bolivia. [9] Torres had displeased Washington by convening an "Asamblea del Pueblo" (Assembly of the Town), in which representatives of specific proletarian sectors of society were represented (miners, unionized teachers, students, peasants), and more generally by leading the ...
During the Spanish American wars of independence, the United States was officially neutral but permitted Spanish American agents to obtain weapons and supplies.With the reception of Manuel Torres in 1821, the Gran Colombia (present-day Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, northern Peru, Venezuela, western Guyana and northwest Brazil) became the first former Spanish colony recognized by the United States ...
Maduro, it bears repeating, makes no secret of this: He is the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela. Socialists will complain, as they often do, that various socialist governments are ...
Chavismo (from Spanish: chavismo), also known in English as Chavism or Chavezism, is a left-wing populist political ideology based on the ideas, programs and government style associated with the Venezuelan President between 1999 and 2013 Hugo Chávez [1] that combines elements of democratic socialism, socialist patriotism, [2] [3] Bolivarianism, and Latin American integration. [4]
In some cases, they have been accompanied by caravans of motorcycles - another possible sign of change in Venezuela. Motorcycle clubs have long been considered hot-beds of fierce ruling party support.