An Analysis Of Hugo Chavez And His Bolivarian Project

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Chavez and His Bolivarian Project
At the first decade of the Twenty-First Century, Hugo Chavez was one of the most controversial political figures in the global affairs, not just in Latin America. Roughly speaking, there are two different opinions on Hugo Chavez: critics and advocate. On the one hand, the critics blamed Chavez’s populist policies, which distorted and manipulated market mechanisms and enlarge a role of the state in an economy, as a root of economic instability and hyperinflation in Venezuela (McDonald, 2014). On the other hand, the advocate praised Chavez as a role model of an alternative path that was distinct from market-oriented neo-liberalism, which gave multinational corporations tyrannical power (Harneker, 2013). Differently, …show more content…

In particular, Chavez usually proclaimed himself as a follower of Bolivarian ideology who wanted to fulfill Bolivar’s unfinished project of unification of South and Central America into “Greater Colombia”, which could enable Latin American nations to enjoy prosperity and emancipation (Guevara, 2005: 9-11). Inspired by Bolivar’s ambition, Chavez even named his initiative of the organized political conspiracy, which aimed to emancipate Venezuela people from the corrupted regime of oligarchs, as Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in 1982 (Gott, 2011: 38). As explained by Gott, the MBR-200 had begun as a circle of political study, but the members gradually changed their perceptions on their groups, as they gained more knowledge on the history and the contemporary problem of Venezuela. Consequently, they started to realize that a “coup d’état”, could be a tool to overthrow the existing political system. For the MBR-200, they could not change Venezuelan society until they succeed in occupying the state. In brief, Chavez started his Bolivarian revolution since he was still a middle-ranked

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