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Venezuela: Divisions Harden after Chávez Victory
September 8, 2004 ... contend he is authoritarian or even imposing a communist dictatorship in Venezuela modeled after his friend Fidel ... about his project -- that he is installing a communist dictatorship -- is absurd. Opponents freely march by the ... concede that allegations that he is installing a Cuba-type dictatorship are far-fetched. “This is not a ... -
Living the Utopia
February 18, 2004 ... in some more and in some less. In particular, under the dictatorship of General Marcos Perez Jimenez, public works ... refers to the period between the end of the Perez Jimenez dictatorship and the beginning of the Chavez presidency ... -
Energy Affairs, Technology and Security of the State
February 12, 2004 ... of the Armed Forces against the brief, yet brutal, fascist dictatorship imposed by the anti-democratic opposition during ... of the 1950’s. As the coup was carried out and the brief dictatorship unleashed, Gen. Baduel was the first high ... -
Navigating Chávez's Venezuela
August 25, 2004 ... the country's oil boom. From the fall of a 10-year dictatorship in 1958 until Chávez's first election in 1998, ... venture like that, which almost culminated in a real dictatorship, including the dissolution of the democratically ... -
Referendum brings 'revolution' mixing free markets with social welfare
September 8, 2004 ... Fidel Castro bent on converting Venezuela into a socialist dictatorship. What both sides can agree on is that, with oil ... -
Citizen Power and Venezuela’s Local Public Planning Councils
November 12, 2004 ... part of the 4th Republic. After the fall of the military dictatorship of Pérez Jimenez in 1958, the dominant ... -
Venezuela: Changing the World by Taking Power
July 22, 2004 Tariq Ali, the world reknown activist, writer, and filmmaker, talks about Venezuela, Brazil and the state of the Latin American Left. According to him, one of the greatest errors the global justice movement is committing is to ignore state power, which is why Venezuela is so important for the left. -
The Legal and Practical Basis of Citizen Power in Venezuela
December 2, 2004 ... before Chávez came to power was not a democracy, it was a dictatorship disguised as a democracy. It was called a ... Revolutionary process have set out to transform this “dictatorship disguised as a democracy” by addressing social ... -
Venezuela Defeats the Coupmakers
August 24, 2004 ... pact negotiated in 1958 after the collapse of a military dictatorship. By constitutionally mandating nationwide slates ... -
The Possible Faces of Venezuelan Democracy
October 11, 2004 ... Peréz Jiménez was overthrown. Built during Jiménez’ dictatorship, its original name was Urbanizacion 2 de ... -
A New Chapter in Venezuela?
October 7, 2004 ... political regime unfolded shortly after the end of the dictatorship. A guerrilla movement erupted in the mid-1960s, ...