Encountering US Empire in Socialist Venezuela
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Encountering US Empire in Socialist Venezuela

The Legacy of Race, Neo-Colonialism, and Democracy Promotion

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Encountering US Empire in Socialist Venezuela

The Legacy of Race, Neo-Colonialism, and Democracy Promotion

About this book

Since the end of World War II, the United States has come to dominate the world economically and politically, leading many to describe the United States as an empire. Scholars have analyzed how the US government has worked through international financial institutions, its Central Intelligence Agency, and outright warfare to achieve its will. In this book, Timothy M. Gill spotlights how the US government also worked through democracy promotion to undermine governments abroad, including in Venezuela. President Hugo ChĂĄvez, who ruled from 1999 until his death in 2013, was among the democratically elected Latin American state leaders who embraced socialism and challenged the idea of US global power. Gill shows how US government agencies funded and trained opposition parties and activists, and how such intervention often was justified in neocolonial and racist terms. Through analysis of documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, embassy cables, and interviews with US government and Venezuelan nonprofit members, Gill details such operations and the imperial thinking behind them.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction. US Empire in the Twenty-First Century
  8. 1. The Rise of Hugo ChĂĄvez and the Evolution of US-Venezuelan Relations
  9. 2. Theoretical Perspectives on US Democracy Assistance
  10. 3. Understanding Venezuelans, Understanding ChĂĄvez: The Endurance of Racist-Imperialist Mentalities
  11. 4. Coaching Opposition Political Parties I: The International Republican Institute
  12. 5. Coaching Opposition Political Parties II: The National Democratic Institute
  13. 6. Promoting Free Market Economics and Traditional Labor Unions in Chávez’s Venezuela
  14. 7. Funding Anti-ChĂĄvez Voices in Civil Society: The National Endowment for Democracy
  15. 8. Transforming Chavistas, Encouraging Protest: The US Agency for International Development in Venezuela
  16. 9. ChĂĄvez Responds: Terminating Foreign Funding for Political Parties and NGOs
  17. Conclusion. Making Theoretical Sense of US Democracy Assistance Efforts in Venezuela
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index