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Gott: Chavez’s Anti-Neoliberal Lessons for Europeans
Znet Article, May, 20 2012
Richard Gott
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Chavez has been engaged since the turn of the century, even before, on a project that rejects the neoliberal economics that afflicts Europe
Gott: Chavez's Perfect Gift to Obama
Znet Article, April, 22 2009
Richard Gott
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Some surprise has been expressed in the Anglo-Saxon world that Hugo Chavez should have presented a book to Barack Obama by Eduardo Galeano. Ignorance can be the only defence, the very fault that the Venezuelan president had earlier accused his US ...
Gott: Venezuela clashes also about race and class
Znet Article, June, 10 2007
Richard Gott
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(June 7) After 10 days of rival protests in the streets of Caracas, memories have been revived of earlier attempts to overthrow the Bolivarian revolution of Hugo Chávez, now in its ninth year. Stree...
Gott: Latin America is preparing to settle accounts with its white settler elite
Znet Article, November, 19 2006
Richard Gott
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The recent explosion of indigenous protest in Latin America, culminating in the election this year of Evo Morales, an Aymara indian, as president of Bolivia, has highlighted the precarious position of the white-settler elite that has dominated the...
Gott: Two fingers to America
Znet Article, August, 25 2005
Richard Gott
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Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, is a genial fellow with a good sense of humour and a steely political purpose. As a former military officer, he is accustomed to the language of battle and he thrives under attack. He will laugh off this w...
Gott: A Seismic Upheaval Among Latin America's Indians
Znet Article, June, 11 2005
Richard Gott
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When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the mid-16th century on the immense plains of the bleak plateau that forms the westerly part of what is now Bolivia, they paused for a while at a settlement not far from the rim of a great canyon. At 12,00...
Gott: Racist Rage Of The Caracas Elite
Znet Article, December, 11 2002
Richard Gott
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Pilin Leon, a former Miss Venezuela, was busy judging the Miss World competition in London on Saturday when the oil tanker that bears her name, illegally at anchor in Lake Maracaibo (principal source of Venezuela's oil), was boarded by Venezuelan ...
Gott: A Silent Majority Finds Its Voice
Znet Article, June, 29 2002
Richard Gott
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The great city of Caracas spreads over innumerable mountainous hills, and in the rainy season the peaks poke up through the clouds that hover in the valleys below. Several million people live on these steep slopes in barrios, a word which, when tr...
