Venezuela and the New Latin America by Hugo Chávez

[AP]

Anyone want to read and discuss this book?



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Chávez : Venezuela and the New Latin America
by Hugo Chávez, David Deutschmann (Editor), Javier Salado (Editor)

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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Ocean Press; (August 15, 2004)
ISBN: 1920888004
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #326,282

Is President Chávez the new Fidel Castro? Is Venezuela the new Cuba? Elected by an overwhelming popular mandate in 1998, Hugo Chávez is now one of Latin America's most controversial political figures. In this exclusive interview, Chávez expresses a fiercely nationalist vision for Venezuela and a commitment to a united Latin America. He discusses the significance of the military coup against his government in April 2002, Venezuela's new democratic constitution and assesses his relations with the United States and Cuba.

"Soviet power has collapsed but that does not mean that neoliberal capitalism has to be the model followed by the peoples of the West... This world cannot be run by a universal police force that seeks to control everything." -President Hugo Chávez

[billyoc]

1. That looks good, I'm going to pick it up today. n/t

[BayCityProgressive]

2. Uruguay Just

elected a leftist as well. And Brazil also has a leftist leader. I will be happy to see South America rise up.

[AP]

3. Argentina's Néstor Kirchner is anti-neoliberal too.

During his August 31st, 2004 ten-hour, self-invited visit to Argentina, IMF Managing Director Rodrigo Rato told President Néstor Kirchner: “At the IMF we have a problem called Argentina ”. Kirchner promptly replied: “I have a problem called 15 million poor people”, a clear reference to what Kirchner considers the outcome of decades of mistaken IMF policy prescriptions in Argentina.1

This frigid exchange is an indicator that the relationship between Argentina and the IMF is not going smoothly. In fact, the three-year agreement with the Fund, signed in September of 2003,2 is in limbo. In what has become a regular event, the IMF delayed approval of the third quarterly review of the agreement due in July, alleging that Argentina had not complied with certain structural reforms.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=42&ItemID=6476