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Propaganda Galore
By Dr. Ronn Pineo, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, and Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Towson University on May 14, 2013 | 1 Comment“In Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela there is no free press—just state controlled anti-American propaganda.” Republican Congressman Connie Mack, Florida “Under Chávez life for Venezuela’s poor only got worse … Public health is deplorable.” Republican former governor Bob Ehrlich, Maryland President Barack Obama behaves as if he does not understand Latin America and... -
Revisiting Iran’s Relations with Venezuela and Argentina
By Jennifer Aron, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsThe growing economic relationship between Argentina and Iran has been compared to a pact with the devil, but does this rather extreme metaphor have any justification in real life, or is it a product of rhetorical overkill? In 2002, President George W. Bush included Iran in his “Axis of Evil,”... -
Open Letter to The Economist – RE: “Hugo Chávez’s Rotten Legacy”
By Dr. Ronn Pineo, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, as well as Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Towson University on April 1, 2013 | 9 Comments“Hugo Chávez’s Rotten Legacy” bequeathed by The Economist offers many sloppy factual errors regarding the memory of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. In its shamelessly ideologized bushwacking of the Venezuelan leader, Chávez is presented as an anti-democratic, autocratic, and anti-private business zealot, as he allegedly cynically buys votes for himself by... -
The Venezuelan Elections of April 14, 2013: Rehabilitated Neoliberalism versus 21st Century Socialism
By Frederick B. Mills, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on March 29, 2013 | 6 CommentsIn those Latin American countries that have decided to abandon neoliberalism in pursuit of social justice, there has been a change in the parameters of political debate in presidential electoral politics. Right wing electoral campaigns can no longer count on the effectiveness of hysterical anti-communism nor on singing the virtues... -
Hugo Chávez: The Death of a Great Bolivarian
By Frederick B. Mills, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs on March 6, 2013 | 6 CommentsHugo Chávez was a world historical figure whose legacy will continue to leave its hemispheric mark on the side of a politics that guarantees social and economic rights. Such a commitment is all but titanic, because it involves a more equitable distribution of wealth, something anathema to the traditional elites... -
Venezuela’s Foreign Policy Without Chávez: Is this the end of ALBA?
By W. Alejandro Sanchez, Research Fellow at Council on Hemispheric Affairs on March 5, 2013 | 3 CommentsHugo Chávez Frias, President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, passed away on March 5, 2013, due to severe health complications. For at least the past year and half, the Venezuelan head of state had been battling cancer that continued to appear in spite of several surgeries. He traveled to Cuba for...