A typically subtle Venezuelan state animation showing Hugo Chavez in heaven met by his revolutionary ancestors: The group includes Cuban Revolution leader Che Guevara, Latin American liberator Simón Bolívar, Argentine first lady Eva Perón, Chilean President Salvador Allende, Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto César Sandino, and indigenous...
Hugo Chavez
The Venezuelans are giving Chavez the full Lenin treatment: embalming, display, the whole kit and caboodle. Very exciting.
The coverage of Hugo Chavez's death has been almost universally terrible. But this piece from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Simpson takes the cake: Chavez invested Venezuela's oil wealth into.
Since it seems Hugo Chavez is about to die, it's worth looking at his legacy a bit. Of course, it's almost impossible to do so in a measured way. His die-hard supporters (relatively few as they may be in the United States) talk of him...
Colin asks a good question about the so-called Latin American "left." One of the biggest problems here is that, simply put, I don’t buy characterizations of people like Correa, Chavez,.
Callum McCormick has a very thoughtful essay on the legacy of Hugo Chavez from a leftist perspective. The upshot: While a defeat would for Chavez would be a setback for.