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Featured Lecture :

Venezuela
Hugo Chávez: The Cold War’s Revolutionary Son

by Brian Nelson
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, September 17, 2010 3:00pm – 5:00pm
UNM Continuing Education Conference Center

1634 University Blvd NE (at the intersection with Indian School Rd.) Plenty of Free Parking

Author Brian Nelson will examine the psychology and the political motivations of Latin America’s most truculent of presidents. What are the goals of the man who has befriended Fidel Castro, given aid to the Colombian FARC, called George W. Bush “the devil,” and has made Venezuela one of the world’s top arms buyers? Nelson unravels the riddle of Hugo Chávez by showing his deep personal identification with the revolutionary left. Indeed, Chávez’s ascension to the Venezuelan presidency involves a series of relationships with “revolutionary fathers” many of them the same communist guerrillas who helped Fidel Castro in his failed decade-long struggle for control of Venezuela in the 1960s. Using this historic context, Nelson will examine the long-term implications for Venezuela—its strategic importance as a major oil exporter, the consequences of it’s budding relationship with Tehran, and what type of policy Washington should adopt to safeguard its interests in the region

 

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Upcoming Events

 

September 9 – BOOK CLUB

Brian Nelson. The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup against Chávez and the Making of Modern Venezuela, 2009. 7 PM Location TBA.

 


September 17 – LECTURE

VENEZUELA. Hugo Chávez: the Cold War’s Revolutionary Son by Brian Nelson, John Hopkins University.

3 PM At the UNM Continuing Education Conference Center.

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October 5 – BOOK CLUB

Bruce Cumings. North Korea: Another Country. 2004. 7 PM Location TBA

 

 

See 2010 Calendar of Events

 
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