"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 Ch vez) is asking: Is Venezuela taking the Cuban road?
In the face of Ch vez's outspoken resistance to the neoliberal project in Latin America, accelerating social reforms in Venezuela, and rising hysteria in Washington about the relationship between Ch vez and Fidel Castro, this is a uniquely objective and authoritative analysis by Cuba's ambassador to Venezuela.
German Sanchez has been Cuba's Ambassador to Venezuela since 1994. In this fascinating book, he describes the similarities and the differences between the revolutionary processes in Cuba and Venezuela. He shows that Venezuela, while learning from Cuba's experiences, is not taking the same road. In 1958 Cuban life expectancy was 61, infant mortality was 60/1,000 and unemployment was 30 per cent; by 2005, the figures were...
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