10/10/2005
What to make of Chavez? Anti-American rabble rouser? Castro's devoted friend?
In Gott’s sympathetic account, Chavez is a magnetic personality of the Clintonian type, “a genuinely original figure in Latin America,” a radical left-wing nationalist, to be sure, but a pragmatic improviser, and certainly no dogmatic socialist. Chavez’s program for Venezuela remains somewhat vague, even to the man himself, but his concern for the country’s poor and marginalized is, in Gott's view, sincere and his vocation is essentially democratic.
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Hey, we're having a debate over here on US policy in Latin America, come join us. I think Chavez is relatively harmless, Venezuelans voted for him so the US looks kinda silly when bashing him all the time.
The Latin Americanist
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use rss for FYI from BATR
