Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780822960645
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2010
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
Description:
Venezuela\u2019s Hugo Ch\u00e1vez was the first anti-neoliberal presidential candidate to win in the region. Electing Ch\u00e1vez examines the circumstances that facilitated this pivotal election. By 1998, Venezuela had been rocked by two major scandals—the exchange rate incidents of the 1980s and the banking crisis of 1994—and had suffered rising social inequality.