满目疮痍的革命:乌戈查韦斯的故事

满目疮痍的革命:乌戈查韦斯的故事When Hugo
Chávez st
ormed to po
wer in Venezuel
a in 19
98 he p
romised to t
ransform the l
ives of the poo
r. But now
20 year
s on, 90 per
cent of famil
ies in V
enezuela say th
ey do not
have enough to
eat - an
d the United
Nations pre
dicts that ove
r five m
illion peo
ple will h
ave fled the c
ountry by th
e end of 20
19.

Chá
vez was a
t the helm o
f the co
untry with th
e largest
proven oil rese
rves in
the world
, and set abo
ut spendi
ng Venezu
ela’s vas
t oil wea
lth. Aro
und the world
he was h
ailed as a
new hop
e for Socialism
by some po
litician
s.

A
precursor to
many of
today’s po
pulist lea
ders,
Chávez bypassed
tradit
ional media an
d spoke direc
tly to the pe
ople th
rough his w
eekly l
ive TV show. T
old by
many of those
who knew him,
this is the
story of incre
dible short-ter
m achieve
ments in hea
lth and educat
ion, but also
of the
tragic
legacy of
his ideali
sm, populis
m and ruthles
s pursuit of a
bsolute po
wer.


Wit
h populis
t movements inc
reasingly ta
king po
wer in cou
ntries a
round the wor
ld, it’
s a story t
hat&amp
;#39;s now
more releva
nt than ever.



Part of
BBC Two’s aw
ard-winin
g This World
strand.When Hu
go Chávez sto
rmed to p
ower in
Venezuel
a in 199
8 he promised
to transfor
m the lives of
the poo