Hugo! (79 page)

284
to their hotels
Anwar Faruqi, "OPEC Summit Opens in Spruced Up
Venezuelan Capital," Associated Press, September 26, 2000.

284
prophet Muhammad
Anwar Faruqi, "With Heavy Security,
Venezuela Welcomes Princes and Presidents," Associated Press,
September 27, 2000.

285
Cacique restaurant
Ibid.

285
fourteen months or so
Steve Ellner, "Venezuela and OPEC,"
In These
Times
, November 3-10, 2000.

285
is justice
Traci Carl, "Chávez Rallies OPEC Leaders," Associated
Press, September 27, 2000.

285
filed out of the auditorium
Ibid.

285
interest on foreign debt
Scott Wilson, "Windfall from Rising
Prices Unifies and Energizes OPEC,"
The Washington Post
,
September 26, 2000.

286
between the two countries since 1997
Alexandra Olson, "OPEC
Members Wrap Up Summit Promising Kinder, Gentler Oil Cartel,"
Associated Press, September 29, 2000.

286
against savage capitalism
Ellner, "Venezuela and OPEC."

286
twenty-five-year history
Wilson, "Windfall from Rising Prices."

287
"Welcome Fidel!"
Alexandra Olson, "Castro, Chávez Visit Historic
Sites, Opposition Parties Protest," Associated Press, October 27, 2000.

287
where Chávez was born
Chris Hawley, "Castro Visits Chávez's Old
Stomping Grounds in Venezuela," Associated Press, October 28, 2000.

288
no one who can substitute for you
Larry Rohter, "Venezuelan Leader
Finds a Teammate in Castro,"
The New York Times
, October 30, 2000.

288
a third of its oil needs
Alexandra Olson, "Fidel Castro Signs Much-
Criticized Oil Assistance Pact with Venezuela," Associated Press,
October 30, 2000; Larry Rohter, "Venezuela Will Sell Cuba Low-
Priced Oil,"
The New York Times
, October 31, 2000.

289
the land of the Liberator
Fabiola Sánchez, "Cuba's Castro Showered
with Praise, Honors in Venezuela," Associated Press, August 11, 2001.

289
in Venezuela," he'd insisted
Alexandra Olson, "Castro Applauds
Chávez's 'Social' Revolution, Emphasizes Differences with Cuba,"
Associated Press, October 31, 2000.

290
Fidel the Communist
Rohter, "A Man with Big Ideas."

290
the government of President Chávez
James Anderson, "Venezuelan
Government Extends Hand to Incoming Bush Administration,"
Associated Press, December 29, 2000.

291
got through elementary school
Juan O. Tamayo, "Chávez's
School Plans Ignite Furor in Venezuela,"
The Miami Herald
,
February 27, 2001.

291
or when they're open
Author's interview, Lisa Sullivan,
December 10, 2005.

291
a total of one million
Christopher Toothaker, "Chávez Strikes Back
at Teachers Concerned About 'Revolutionary' Educational Program,"
Associated Press, January 21, 2001.

292
5.2 percent in 2001
Greg Wilpert, "Collision in Venezuela,"
New
Left Review
, May-June 2003.

292
sixteen hundred families
Larry Rohter, "Caracas Journal: Salutes,
Some Skeptical, As Schools Go 'Bolivarian,'"
The New York Times
,
November 9, 2000.

292
extend to private schools
Author's interview, Héctor Navarro,
August 9, 2006.

292
his teenage students
Ibid.

293
supervisor number one
Cristina Marcano and Alberto Barrera
Tyszka,
Hugo Chávez Sin Uniforme
, pages 210-211.

293
77 percent
Steve Ellner, "Organized Labor and the Challenge of
Chavismo
," in
Venezuelan Politics in the Chávez Era
, edited by Steve
Ellner and Daniel Hellinger, page 162.

294
minister of the interior in early 2002
Daniel Hellinger, "Political
Overview: The Breakdown of
Puntofijismo
and the Rise of
Chavismo
,"
in ibid., page 48.

294
eventually joined a circle
Michael McCaughan,
The Battle of
Venezuela
, page 108.

295
endangered harpy
Bart Jones, "Indians Fight to Save Gold-Rich
Amazon Paradise," Associated Press, August 11, 1998.

295
toppled at least thirty
Christopher Toothaker, "Chávez to Talk
with Indigenous Tribe Blamed for Knocking Down Power Lines,"
Associated Press, October 22, 2000.

297
he said in English
Christopher Toothaker, "Venezuela's Chávez
Clarifies His Remarks," Associated Press, November 3, 2001.

297
watch what you say
Scott Wilson, "Chávez Turns Caracas from US
Ally to Critic; Supporters Urge Venezuelan to Chance Approach,"
The Washington Post
, November 22, 2001.

297
relations with Venezuela
Christina Hoag and Tim Johnson, "Chávez
Testing US Ties,"
The Miami Herald
, November 6, 2001.

297
to November 7
Conn Hallinan, "The Scent of Another Coup,"
San
Francisco Examiner
, December 29, 2001.

297
the meeting was over
Eva Golinger,
El Código Chávez: Descifrando
la Intervención de los Estados Unidos en Venezuela
(Havana: Editorial
De Ciencias Sociales, 2005), page 69; Miguel Bonasso, "Anatomia
Intima de un Golpe Contado por Chávez,"
Pagina 12,
June 1, 2003.

298
totalitarian trademarks of dictatorships
William Finnegan, "Castro's
Shadow: America's Man in Latin America, and His Obsession,"
The
New Yorker
, October 12, 2002; Johanna Neuman, "Anti-Communist
Reich Given State Department Post,"
Los Angeles Times
, January 12,
2002.

298
"propaganda and disinformation outfit"
"Back to the Future with
Reich,"
Chicago Tribune
, May 9, 2001.

298
pillaged along the way
Ibid.

299
without salary
Ken Guggenheim, "Lawmakers Spar Over Latin
America Post," Associated Press, December 3, 2001.

299
fire extinguisher
Andrés Oppenheimer, "Bush Makes Recess
Appointments, Defies Senate Democrats,"
The Miami Herald
,
January 12, 2002.

299
one newspaper columnist wrote
Mary McGrory, "Bush Brings Back
Iran-Contra Affair,"
The Washington Post
, July 10, 2001.

300
set it on fire
Mark Danner,
The Massacre at El Mozote
.

300
"were not credible"
Terry J. Allen, "Scandal? What Scandal? Bush
Iran-Contra Appointees Barely a Story,"
Extra! Fairness and Accuracy
in Reporting
, September-October 2001.

300
fabulous achievement
Guy Gugliota and Douglas Farah,
"12 Years of Tortured Truth on El Salvador; US Declarations During
War Undercut by UN Commission Report,"
The Washington Post
,
March 21, 1993.

300
high public office
Marie Coco, "Bush Turns to Icon of Bloodshed,"
Newsday
, July 15, 2001.

301
Jesuit priest Joseph Carney
Frank del Olmo, "A Key Nominee's
Troubling Past,"
Los Angeles Times
, October 5, 2001.

301
Ivy League variety
Ibid.

301
they established in Washington, DC
Daniel Schorr, "History of
the US Intervening in Latin American Politics in Order to Promote
Stability Over Democracy," National Public Radio's
All Things
Considered
, April 17, 2002; Christopher Marquis, "US Cautioned
Leader of Plot Against Chávez,"
The New York Times
, April 17, 2002.

301
seeking political asylum
George Garties, "Judge Told Human
Rights Conditions Have Improved in El Salvador," Associated Press,
December 5, 1986.

302
big bully on the block
Bart Jones, "Latin America's Leftist Tilt
Roils DC; Three Reagan-Era Hardliners Return to Help Run Bush's
Foreign Policy Team,"
Newsday
, December 1, 2002.

302
is an insult
Bart Jones, "Three Tarnished Reagan Figures
Have Hands in Bush Foreign Policy,"
National Catholic Reporter
,
January 10, 2003.

302
messed with the media
Terry J. Allen, "Scandal? What Scandal?"

302
December 18, 2001, in Washington
Juan González, "Familiar Fingers
in Venezuela Mess," New York
Daily News
, April 18, 2002.

303
preferential trade treatment
Scott Wilson, "Chávez Regained Power
While Plotters Bickered; Coup Was Not Planned, Ex-Leader Says,"
The Washington Post
, April 18, 2002.

303
we don't like this guy
Christopher Marquis, "Bush Officials Met with
Venezuelans Who Ousted Leader,"
The New York Times
, April 16,
2002.

303
dissident Venezuelan military officials
Wilson, "Chávez Regained
Power While Plotters Bickered."

303
what would be illegal activities
Bart Jones, "Like Old Days: US Role
in Coup Under Scrutiny,"
National Catholic Reporter
, May 31, 2002.

304
in the Western Hemisphere
Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen
Kinzer,
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala
,
revised and expanded (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University David
Rockefeller Center on Latin American Studies, 2005).

304
US covert activities
Bart Jones, "US Funds Aid Chávez Opposition,"

National Catholic Reporter
, April 13, 2004.

304
NED programs
William I. Robinson,
A Faustian Bargain: US
Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy in
the Post-Cold War Era
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), page 17.

305
to $877, 000
Christopher Marquis, "US Bankrolling Is Under
Scrutiny for Ties to Chávez Ouster,"
The New York Times
, April 25,
2003.

306
to 50 percent
Fabiola Sánchez, "Law Tightens Grip on Venezuela's
Oil," Associated Press, November 28, 2001.

306
the magazine
América Economía Gregory Wilpert, "Collision in
Venezuela,"
New Left Review
, May-June 2003.

306
39¢ by 2000
Ibid.

306
the arable land
Jorge Rueda, "Squatter Invasions, Chávez's Push for
Land Title Law Has Venezuela's Farmers on Edge," Associated Press,
August 12, 2001; Seth DeLong, "Venezuela's Agrarian Reform: More
Like Lincoln than Lenin,"
Washington Report on the Hemisphere
(Council on Hemispheric Affairs), February 25, 2005.

306
owners living in Caracas
Fabiola Sánchez, "Venezuelan President
Warns Ranchers," Associated Press, March 7, 2001.

306
70 percent of its food
Karl Penhaul, "Venezuela Land Program Tills
the Soil of Class Strife,"
The Boston Globe
, March 31, 2002.

306
importer in South America
DeLong, "Venezuela's Agrarian Reform."

306
the previous ratio
Wilpert, "Collision in Venezuela."

306
lowest figure in Latin America
Ibid.

307
the hands of large landowners
Rueda, "Squatter Invasions."

307
most of their land
DeLong, "Venezuela's Agrarian Reform"; Wilpert,
"Collision in Venezuela"; Gregory Wilpert, "Land for People Not
Profit in Venezuela,"
www.venezuelanalysis.com
, August 23, 2005.

307
democracy in the United States
Seth DeLong, "Venezuela's Agrarian
Reform."

307
the most fertile soil
Christina Hoag, "Venezuelan Land Reform
Raises Ire, Threats from Private Sector,"
Houston Chronicle
,
December 8, 2001.

308
Colombian paramilitary organizations
Sánchez, "Venezuelan President
Warns Ranchers."

308
two young sons
Penhaul, "Venezuela Land Program Tills the Soil of
Class Strife."

308
were assassinated
Wilpert, "Land for People Not Profit."

308
130,000 families
DeLong, "Venezuela's Agrarian Reform."

308
other presidents in the region
Reed Lindsay, "Clash Over Venezuela
Land Law,"
Newsday
, September 21, 2003.

309
"Is Hugo Chávez Insane?"
Phil Gunson,
Newsweek
, November 12,
2001.

310
ghost towns
Juan Forero, "Daylong Venezuelan Strike Protests
Economic Program,"
The New York Times
, December 11, 2001.

310
completely paralyzed
Christina Hoag and Nancy San Martin,
"Caracas Comes to Screeching Halt in Protest of National Economic
Policy,"
The Miami Herald
, December 11, 2001.

310
military intervention is inevitable
Scott Wilson, "Though Poor
Remain Loyal, Opposition to Chávez Grows,"
The Washington Post
,
November 26, 2001.

310
his presidential term
Felix Salmon, "Embattled Chávez Makes a
Last Stand,"
Euromoney
, January 2002.

310
daily less important
David Adams and Phil Gunson, "Chávez Steels
Grip, But Hold Slips,"
St. Petersburg Times
, December 10, 2001.

311
removal from office
Scott Wilson, "Clash of Visions Pushed
Venezuela Toward Coup,"
The Washington Post
, April 21, 2002.

312
these despotic regimes
George Gedda, "Powell Voices Scorn for
Hugo Chávez," Associated Press, February 5, 2002; Steve Ellner and
Fred Rosen, "Chavismo at Crossroads,"
NACLA Report on the Americas
,
May-June 2002.

312
events in Venezuela
Peter Slevin, "Political Crisis in Venezuela
Worries White House,"
The Washington Post
, February 23, 2003.