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Cuba and Venezuela: An insight into two revolutions
“Venezuela now presents a similar problem as Cuba for US interests in the hemisphere.”—Noam Chomsky With Latin America becoming more volatile than it has been for decades, this book addresses the question everyone (friend and foe of President Chávez) is Is Venezuela taking the Cuban road? In the face of Chávez’s outspoken resistance to the neoliberal project in Latin America, accelerating social reforms in Venezuela, and rising hysteria in Washington about the relationship between Chávez and Fidel Castro, this is a uniquely objective and authoritative analysis by Cuba’s ambassador to Venezuela.
190 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2006
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May 31, 2008
German Sanchez has been the Cuban ambassador to Venezuela since 1994. As you might expect the book is long-winded, full of cliche'd phrases, and off-the-point diatribes. There are many other books that contain better, and better explained, information about what is happening in Venezuela. For example, Cowboy in Caracas, The Battle of Venezuela, and The Venezuelan Revolution: 100 Questions-100 Answers.
But this book does offer an official Cuban perspective on Chavez' 'Bolivarian revolution'. The Cuban government takes great pains to deny the so-called 'Cubanization' of Venezuela. And it also points out, correctly, that the Venezuelan revolution takes place almost diametrically opposite to the way in which the Cuban revolution occurred.
The book consists of some original material, plus previously published interviews, and a couple previously published articles. Hence the repetitiveness. The original material is actually fairly interesting, and provides good summary information about the state of the Cuban economy and Cuban socialism since the fall of the Soviet Union. There is also some good information on the state of the social missions (Mision Adentro, Mision Robinson, Mision Milagro, etc.) in Venezuela, defining the roles that Cuban physicians and teachers have played in those missions.
In all, I think you have to pretty interested in Venezuela or Cuba to find this book useful.
But this book does offer an official Cuban perspective on Chavez' 'Bolivarian revolution'. The Cuban government takes great pains to deny the so-called 'Cubanization' of Venezuela. And it also points out, correctly, that the Venezuelan revolution takes place almost diametrically opposite to the way in which the Cuban revolution occurred.
The book consists of some original material, plus previously published interviews, and a couple previously published articles. Hence the repetitiveness. The original material is actually fairly interesting, and provides good summary information about the state of the Cuban economy and Cuban socialism since the fall of the Soviet Union. There is also some good information on the state of the social missions (Mision Adentro, Mision Robinson, Mision Milagro, etc.) in Venezuela, defining the roles that Cuban physicians and teachers have played in those missions.
In all, I think you have to pretty interested in Venezuela or Cuba to find this book useful.
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