Hugo Chavez And The Ghost Of Simn Bolvar
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| Published Online: January 09, 2008 |
Newsweek | 2008-01-14
Nearly 200 years ago Venezuelan patriot Sim?n Bol?var declared his country a free and sovereign state, and went on to liberate four other South American nations from Spanish colonial rule, envisioning a confederation of Andean republics that would stretch from the isthmus of Panama to the high plateau country of Bolivia. His dream inspired another, decades later, when a young Hugo Ch?vez, then an Army officer in his late 20s, gathered with some of his military colleagues in the Venezuelan city of Maracay on the anniversary of Bol?var's death and declared, 'There is Bol?var in the sky of the Americas, watchful and frowning … because what he left undone remains undone to this very day.'
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