The Chávez decade
Ieri 5 dicembre 2008, 10.42.36 | Stephanie Blankenburg
Academic and former economic adviser to the Venezuelan vice president, Stephanie Blankenburg gives her analysis of 10 years of Chávez in power. Plus read Hugh O'Shaughnessy's take
When Hugo Chávez Frias won the presidential elections in Venezuela on 6 December 1998, it was against the odds.
In a victory mimicked by Barack Obama 10 years on, Chávez came up from behind relatively late in the presidential race, beating the establishment candidates of two dominant political parties.
He also became the first “non-white” president of his country, elected on a broad platform for change after long years of [...]
The real Hugo Chávez
Ieri 5 dicembre 2008, 10.38.14 | Hugh O'Shaughnessy
A decade after Hugo Chávez was first elected Venezuelan president Hugh 0'Shaughnessy pays tribute to the self-styled Bolivarian revolutionary
A decade ago Hugo Chávez won a landslide victory in the Venezuelan presidential elections taking 3,673,685 votes of the five and a quarter million cast.
In last month’s elections which were equally as clean and legitimate as the ones in 1998 – if not more so – PSUV, the newly created and still rather uncomfortable party founded by Chávez and his supporters, won well over 5,000,000 votes in [...]
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