
Brian A. Nelson
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Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, Center for Talented Youth, Baltimore, Maryland. Author of The Silence and the Scorpion: The Coup Against Chávez and the Making of Modern Venezuela.
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Hugo Chávez was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela (1999–2013). Chávez styled himself as the leader of the “Bolivarian Revolution,” a socialist political program for much of Latin America, named after Simón Bolívar, the South American independence hero. Although the focus of the…
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