Hugo! (90 page)

to Miraflores

on options during

RCTV (Radio Caracas Television, Channel 2)

reading by Hugo Chávez

about Bolívar

Bible

books as influence

as cadet

Galileo

"How to Triumph in Life,"

of leaders

of leftists

Mao Tse-tung

Neruda, Pablo

Nietzsche, Friedrich

La Revoluci
ó
n Nacional Peruana
(Velasco Alvarado blue book)

The Times of Ezequiel Zamora
(Brito Figueroa)

Whitman, Walt

Reagan, Ronald

Reagan administration

and Central America

reality tours in Venezuela.

See also
revolutionary tourism

of religious studies professor

La Rebelión de los Angeles
(
The Rebellion of
the Angels
book)

The Rebellion of the Angels
(Zago)

RECADI scandal (Lusinchi administration)

recall

See also
presidency of Hugo Chávez (after 2002 coup)

anti-recall campaign of HC: in barrios

staff called Comando Maisanta

UBEs (Electoral Battle Units)

and Bush, George W.

electronic voting

fears of El Bogotazo-type bloody riots

audit demanded

and National Electoral Council

international observers

and National Electoral Council

(
See also
main heading
National Electoral Council)

and NED funding to Sumate

Operation Guarimba

petitions

polls

results

software controversy

strengthening HC

and Sumate

turnout

violent clashes triggered

La Reconstituyente
/
The Reconstitution
play parodying HC

Red Book
(Mao)

Red Flag (Bandera Roja) guerrillas

reelection landslide of Hugo Chávez (2006)

election day

mixed economy/social democracy

RCTV license not renewed

Reich, Otto (George W. Bush Latin America point man)

appointment flap

"The Axis of Evil" article

on El Salvador election

as "fire extinguisher,"

as Office of Public Diplomacy head

Revolutionary Party of Venezuela (PRV)

revolutionary tourism

See
also
reality tours in Venezuela

Reyes Reyes, Luis (Hugo Chávez military ally)

Rice, Secretary of State Condoleezza

See also
State Department, USA

Richardson, Bill (Clinton energy secretary)

Rincón, Gen. Lucas Romero (Venezuelan army chief)

road to power of Hugo Chávez

barrios popularity

"Bolivarian Hurricane,"

caudillo (leader)/military/people triangle

community meetings

DISIP countermeasures

Fidel Castro meeting

one-hundred-day Venezuelan tour

"shadow cabinet,"

slogans: "Constitutional Assembly Now!" slogan

"Hope Is in the Streets,"

South American tour

"To Power" HC quote on jail release

working class frustration tapped

Robertson, Pat (evangelist)

Rocha, Manuel (US Bolivia ambassador)

Rodríguez, Alí (Hugo Chávez oil czar)

deal with Saudi Arabia and Mexico

and PPT (Patria Para Todos) founding

Rodríguez, Isaías (Chávez attorney general), 2002 coup

Rodríguez, Miguel (Pérez minister)

Rodríguez, Salas, Col. Julio (2002 coup plotter)

Rodríguez, Simón (Bolívar tutor)

Rodríguez Chacin, Ramón (Chávez minister), 2002 coup

Rodríguez de Chávez, Marisabel (second Hugo Chávez wife)

and constitutional assembly

personality of

Rogers, Lt. Col. James, US military mission officer at 2002 coup plot celebration

Rojas Suárez, Antonio (Chávez military ally), 1992 coup

Roman Catholic Church of Venezuela.

See
also individual clergy members

and Chávez, Rosa Inés (Hugo Chávez grandmother)

Romero, Peter (US State Department Latin America official)

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rosales, Manuel (Chávez 2006 reelection opponent)

Rosendo, Gen. Manuel (Chávez military ally-critic)

Ros-Lehtinen, Rep. Illeana (R-FL)

Rosset, Peter, on Chávez land reform

Ruíz brothers (Chávez's friends)

Ruíz family friendship

Ruíz Guevara, José Esteban (HC leftist "innoculator")

Rumsfeld, Donald (Defense secretary)

Ruptura (PRV arm)

Saab, Tarek William (human rights activist), 2002 coup

Sabaneta, Barinas state (Chávez birthplace)

and nineteenth-century guerrilla

Sáenz, Manuela (Bolívar mistress/officer)

Sáez, Irene (1997 Chávez presidential opponent)

See also
beauty pageant Venezuelan culture

and Causa R (Radical Cause)

COPEI support

Integration, Renovation, and New Hope (IRENE) movement

"vocation of service,"

SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation)

Salas Römer, Henrique (HC presidential opponent)

Sánchez, Elizabeth (PRV)

Sánchez, Nelson (PRV)

Sandinistas

Santa Inés victory of Zamora

and HC anti-recall campaign

Santeliz Ruíz, Ramón (negotiator during 1992 coup)

Santiago, Donna (Philadelphia beneficiary of Chávez discount home heating oil)

Saudi Arabia

"Saudi Venezuela" (Venezuela Saudita)

School of the Americas

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

security of Hugo Chávez

"Senior Executive Intelligence Brief," CIA pre-2002 coup brief

Shapiro, Charles (US ambassador to Venezuela)

Carmona breakfast on first day of interim government

as Clinton administration diplomat

lunching with Gustavo Cisneros/2002 coup

Sinking in the Devil's Excrement
(Pérez Alfonso)

Skol, Michael (US Ambassador)

Smith, Wayne (US Interests Section, Havana, head)

Social Christian Party (COPEI).

See
copei (Social Christian Party)

socialism for twenty-first century

See also
transforming Venezuela dream of Hugo Chávez

as anti-imperialist

endogenous development concept

as gradualist reform

idle factories expropriated by HC government

land reform

activists assassinated

credit/technical assistance

landowner protection

landowner revolt to HC reforms

land to peasants

limiting farm legal sizes

redistributing state-owned property

and US Homestead Act (1862)

Mercosur

minimum wage raise

Mission About-Face (Misión Vuelvan Caras)

multipolar world promotion

neighborhood communal councils

not state socialism repeat

oil/physicians Venezuela-Cuba trade deal

oil trade "soft financing,"

PetroAmerica

and petrochemicals

public works projects

six-hour workdays

and social democracy of Europe

"socialist city" plans

state-owned business creation

as sustainable improvement in people's lives

and telecommunications nationalization

of CANTV

trade as fostering cooperation

transcontinental railroad proposal

and unfettered capitalism failed regionally

and World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil (2005)

social missions of Chávez

after recall victory

barrio dweller land titles

to defeat recall referendum

education

endogenous development concept

following IMF-endorsed formula

hope for sustained prosperity

Inside the Neighborhood (Misión Barrio Adentro)

job creation

like FDR New Deal

local cooperative use

and Cuban physicians

education for future physicians

Misión Milagro (Miracle Mission)

and public health hospitals

Mercals, subsidized food markets

Misión Barrio Adentro (Inside the Neighborhood)

Misión Guaicaipuro Indian tribe program

Misión Identidad voter registration

Misión Piar miners' program

Misión Ribas dropout program

Misión Robinson

Misión Vuelvan Caras (Mission About-Face) job creation

Misión Zamora peasant assistance

Mission About-Face (Misión Vuelvan Caras) job creation

PDVSA fund financing

viability

Sosa, Cecilia (Chávez Supreme Court chief justice)

Sosa, Rev. Arturo (progressive Roman Catholic priest)

Soto, Col. Pedro (2002 coup rebel)

South American consensus

speeches of Hugo Chávez

on Afghanistan war

and blue book of Velasco Alvarado

at Cooper Union

at "counter summit " of Summit of the Americas (2005)

on Cuba/Venezuela toward "same sea of happiness,"

Hello, President
broadcasts of Hugo Chávez

on International Workers' Day, 2007

and Martí, José (Cuban independence hero)

and military jargon

Mount Olivet Baptist Church, Harlem, Hugo Chávez on George W. Bush

por ahora
post-failed coup concession

at United Nations on George W. Bush

at University of Havana

and
Venenito
chemistry teacher

victory speeches: after "mega-election,"

outside Teresa Carreño Theater

at World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil

St. Petersburg Times,

State Department, USA.

See also
Rice, Secretary of State Condoleezza;

USA Albright, Madeleine (secretary of state)

Baker, Secretary of State James

and Cuba syndrome

Saddam Hussein visit

and human trafficking

Office of Public Diplomacy

Powell, Secretary of State Colin on HC

and Romero, Peter, versus HC administration

2002 coup: garnering Latin American support

reports from Gustavo Cisneros (Venevisión) owner

and World Bank withdrawal by HC

Sullivan, Lisa (Maryknoll Catholic missionary)

Sumate (Join Up) civil society/electoral monitoring organization

and recall

Sumavila, Arelis (sociologist/Indian expert)

Summit of the Americas (Argentina, 2005)

Supreme Court

Táchira state (Venezuelan homeland of dictators)

Tamayo Molina, Adm. Carlos (anti-Chávez coup planner)

Tascón list used against Chávez opponents

teetotaling role model of HC

Telesur (CNN-style Latin America station by HC)

Televen, meeting with 2002 coup interim president

Televisión Española (Spain)

Teresa Carreño Theater, Caracas

International Workers' Day HC speech, 2007

and OPEC summit

site of HC victory speech

Thatcher, Margaret

Through These Streets/Por Estas Calles
(soap opera)

Time
magazine, HC as among world's one hundred most influential

The Times of Ezequiel Zamora
(Brito Figueroa)

The Times
of London on Sáez, Irene

Tinker-Salas, Miguel (Pomona College professor)

Torres, Camillo (Colombian priest-turned guerrilla)

Torrijos, Gen. Omar (Panama leader)

The Traditional National Orchestra

TransAfrica Forum tour to Venezuela

transforming Venezuela dream of Chávez.

and Bolívar, Simón

and Caracas barrios visits

and Primera, Alí, protest singer

Transparency International

Trejo, Col. Hugo (Pérez Jiménez overthrow leader)

Trinidad

24 Hours
Venevisión program

arrest warrants report

2002 coup

See also
Carmona interim government (2002);

2002 entries under
USA
main heading;

presidency of Hugo Chávez (after "mega-election")

as accelerating HC vision

aftermath

(
See also
presidency of Hugo Chávez [after 2002 coup])

ambassadors called by HC