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The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution

Posted by Matt in May 31st, 2008

Chavez, 53, the country’s first dark-skinned leader, has used Venezuela’s immense oil wealth, says Jones, to improve life for millions of impoverished shantytown residents through health and education programmes such as no other leader ever attempted. For Washington, though, the “Bolivarian revolution” (named after Simon Bolivar, the leader of the independence struggle against Spain) is a threat to stability in a region long regarded as America’s “back yard”. Not only has Chavez bonded with Castro, but he has built an alliance with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the nuclear-obsessed Iranian leader.

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Video: On The Map with Avi Lewis: The Chavez Mystique

The ultimate Bush basher and Latin enemy number one for the US. On The Map goes behind the caricature of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a complicated and contradictory figure at the heart of a profound shift underway in Latin America. Avi talks to Mark Weisbrot with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Jennifer McCoy, Director of the Americas Program at The Carter Center. Watch all the stories at www.cbc.ca/onthemap

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