Looking Back on the Hugo Chávez Experience: Change through Ongoing Struggle Tempered by Pragmatism
Latin American Perspectives: A Journal on Capitalism and Socialism
Published online on June 09, 2026
Abstract
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Three general perspectives on Hugo Chávez’s radicalization are based on misleading premises. One reduces it to fiery rhetoric or a Manichaean vision, allegedly typical of populists; another claims that Chávez was a committed Marxist prior to reaching ...
Three general perspectives on Hugo Chávez’s radicalization are based on misleading premises. One reduces it to fiery rhetoric or a Manichaean vision, allegedly typical of populists; another claims that Chávez was a committed Marxist prior to reaching ...