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FRIDE: CHAVEZ
FAILURE AT THE POLLS OPENS A NEW HORIZON IN VENEZUELAN POLITICS:
BY SUSANNE
GRATIUS, LAURA
TEDESCO:
17/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 17
December 2007 -
Madrid
– President Chávez’s
mandate now has an expiry date. This fact, along with the weakening of his
government, modifies the political scenario not only in Venezuela but also in
other countries of the region (mainly Bolivia, Nicaragua and Ecuador).
Whatever the destiny of the
president and his political project, by rejecting constitutional reform,
Venezuelans demonstrated that populism could not overwhelm the democratic
framework.
The next months will prove if Chávez
has understood this message. If he does, a more favourable period for democratic
participation can be expected, along with a decline of the hegemonic project.
If he does not, the most likely
scenario is the continuity of national military populism, and, in the best case
scenario, of the polarisation between different and irreconcilable political
projects.
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Keywords: Conflict
Democracy Latin
America & Caribbean Populism
Venezuela
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Bio author: Susanne Gratius
PhD in Political Science by the
University of Hamburg. Expert in Latin America.
Bio author: Laura Tedesco
PhD from Warwick University. She
is now Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science Department of
the University Autónoma of Madrid.
FRIDE
(Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior)
is a European think-tank based in Madrid that seeks to influence the policies
and actions of state and non-state actors in Europe and elsewhere, with regards
to peace and security, democratisation and human rights, and development and
humanitarian action, through applied research and informed debate based on the
values of justice and equality.
Labels: FRIDE,
Chavez, Venezuela,
failure, polls,
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