On December 6th, 1998, Venezuela elected a man who would come to symbolize the era of 21st Century Socialism in the form of Lt. Colonel Hugo Chavez Frias. Chavez’s Bolivarian Revolution would set its sights on massive reforms for a state that had marginalized the nearly 50% of impoverished households and transformed the government into an emblem of corruption.
Nearly two decades later, the nation is in the grips of the Western Hemisphere’s most severe economic and political crises, yet similar issues…
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