Latin America's New Security Reality: Irregular Asymmetric Conflict and Hugo Chavez

Manwaring, Max G.

ISBN 10 : 1584873035 ISBN 13 : 9781584873037

Editeur : Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War Co

Synopsis

Since his election as President of Venezuela in 1998, Hugo Chavez has encouraged and continues to encourage his Venezuelan and other Latin American followers to pursue a confrontational “defensive,” populist, and nationalistic agenda that will supposedly liberate Latin America from the economic dependency and the political imperialism of the North American “Colossus” (the United States). Chavez argues that liberation, New Socialism, and Bolivarianismo (the dream of a Latin American Liberation Movement against U.S. hegemony) will only be achieved by (1) radically changing the traditional politics of the Venezuelan state to that of “direct” (totalitarian) democracy; (2) destroying North American hegemony thoughout all of Latin America by (3) conducting an irregular and asymmetric “Super Insurgency,” or “Fourth-Generation Warfare” to depose the illegitimate external enemy; and, 4) building a new Bolivarian state, beginning with Venezuela and extending to the whole of Latin America. This is not the

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Strategic Studies Institute U. S. Army War Co
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1584873035
• ISBN 13: 9781584873037
• Reliure: Unknown Binding
• Nombre de pages: 62
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