Hugo Chavez: Socialist for the Twenty-First Century by Mike Gonzalez

By Mike Gonzalez

While Hugo Chavez, then President of Venezuela, died in 2013, hundreds of thousands around the globe mourned. In an age the place such a lot politicians encourage merely apathy and cynicism, Chavez's reputation, radicalism and colourful character have been really unique.

Released 365 days after Chavez's unforeseen loss of life, this dramatic and intimate biography strains Chavez's lifestyles from an impoverished rural relatives to the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas. Mike Gonzalez indicates how Chavez's 'Bolivarian revolution' aimed to accomplish Simon Bolivar’s promise of a Latin the US unfastened from imperialism.

Gonzalez information Chavez's shut connection to the hundreds and the way he enraged prosperous elites by means of stating his help for twenty first century socialism. He concludes that the fight for social justice encouraged by way of Chavez can and needs to proceed. this is often an awesome consultant to Chavez's inspiring existence and legacy.

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Venezuela was now fully an oil producer; oil was responsible for close to 90 per cent of its export earnings. It was also determining in a wider sense. The continuing mass influx of rural migrants to the precarious hillside shanty towns around the cities represented a systematic abandonment of the countryside and produced a dramatic decline in agricultural production – an agriculture which until the discovery of ‘the devil’s excrement’ as Pérez Alfonso described oil, had earned most of Venezuela’s GDP.

The fractures and splits that characterised the politics of the Venezuelan left in the late 1960s and early 1970s are too many and too Jesuitical to follow in any detail. But they address in their insistently detailed ways the same fundamental issues and raise the same questions. What are the social forces that can successfully oppose a state with the considerable resources that the oil industry provided, and what methods and strategies can create the instruments of struggle that can resist both sustained repression and the slow ethical erosion that corruption and an immovable political system encourage?

In reality successive governments have closed or otherwise contained the university on a number of occasions. The second area where Causa R worked systematically was Catia, a working class area of Caracas – of some half a million inhabitants – which was well known for its collective spirit of resistance. Many prominent political leaders grew up in the area, among them the current president Nicolás Maduro. The third area of strength, and ultimately the social base of Causa R over subsequent decades, was the workers movement in the main industrial area around Ciudad Guyana in the east of the country.

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