Chavez - Venezuela and the New Latin America - An Interview with Hugo Chavez by Aleida Guevara

Is President Chavez the new Fidel Castro? Is Venezuela the new Cuba? Elected by an overwhelming popular mandate in 1998, Hugo Chavez is now one of Latin America's most controversial political figures. In this exclusive interview, Chavez expresses a fiercely nationalist vision for Venezuela and a commitment to a united Latin America. He discusses the significance of the military coup against his government in April 2002, Venezuela's new democratic constitution and assesses his relations with the United States and Cuba. Soviet power has collapsed but that does not mean that neoliberal capitalism has to be the model followed by the peoples of the West . This world cannot be run by a universal police force that seeks to control everything. - President Hugo Chavez...