Fearing the Chávez Model
Friday, October 8, 2010
For many in Latin America, the Chávez model is the greatest threat to economic and political liberalism since the armed insurrections of the 1980s. GUATEMALA CITY— One word is repeated to me by all the Guatemalan businessmen I'm meeting while here: Chávez. The Venezuelan strongman is the bete noire of Guatemala's economic leaders. What Hugo Chávez represents to them is nothing less than the rollback of liberal democracy in Latin America. They fear the "Chávez model," as they put it, of using democratic tactics to undermine liberal governing systems. Venezuelans recently voted for a new National Assembly, and though Chávez supporters retained their majority, they lost their two-thirds supermajority that allowed them to push through constitutional changes on their own. This puts Chávez in a strong position for his 2012 reelection bid. Democrats throughout Latin America wait to see when Washington will finally take Chávez seriously as the most dangerous man in the Western Hemisphere... http://www.american.com/archive/2010/october/fearing-the-chavez-model?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+American+(AMERICAN.COM+--+A+Magazine+of+Ideas,+Online)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher |
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