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| | Hugo Chavez and His Bolivarian Revolution |
 | | The missions are financed by proceeds from Venezuela's oil industry, control of which Chavez seized after the 2002 (another sore point for opponents), and which, against expectation, is humming along quite nicely. |
 | | That Chavez is genuinely popular in Venezuela, and increasingly throughout Latin America, is cause for neither surprise nor alarm, according to Richard Gott, whose book, Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution (Verso), recently updated and reissued, is the first account in English to place Chavez in historical and intellectual perspective. |
 | | All leftist revolutions in the past have been based on an economic restructuring of society. |
| www.mojones.com /news/qa/2005/09/richard_gott.html (2150 words) |
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