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...Jules Boykoff Abstract Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has emerged as an outspoken challenger to US geopolitical preeminence in the Americas. This study explores the framing practices employed by mainstream newspaper outlets in the United States in their coverage of President Chavez over a ten...

... by exploring Chavismo as an “extreme” case study of populism. Chávez has pushed a model of citizenship which is antithetical to neoliberal models in that it encourages politically engaged citizens, increases worker rights through an increasingly interventionist state, and encourages anti-imperialist solidarity...

...Nana Osei-Kofı; Adela C. Licona; Karma R. Chávez Abstract Anti-racist activist Maria Teresa “Tess” Asplund, who is Afro-Swedish, became known around the world in 2016 when a photograph of her stepping out in front of three hundred marching neo-Nazis from the Nordic Resistance Movement went viral...

... semiotic reading and comparison of political ads from a Maryland Senate race between two women (Linda Chavez and Barbara Mikulski) and one from George Bush (as an example of a male standard) illustrate the difficulty women face as candidates in portraying themselves as effective leaders. Bush's ad shows...

... President Hugo Chavez argued, "anyone who says the caracazo was not a political event is simply wrong the caracazo was not an irrational explosion of the primitive or savage instincts of the masses, nor was it simply the chance for someone to steal a refrigerator." It was rather the moment in which...

... focuses on Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia, the three countries that have sometimes been described as the Latin American "axis of evil. /I As the eight-year presidency of George Bush was winding down, Raul Castro took his first overseas trip as the Cuban president to meet with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela...

... with the election of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in 1998; and, more recently in the United States (US) with the ascendance of Donald Trump to the presidency. What links these political phenomena is a rejection of actually existing liberal democracy and a search for a new, more popularly responsive democracy that can...

... Chavez's 1998 landslide victory in Venezuela, one country after another has turned left. Today, roughly 300 million of Latin America's 520 million citizens live under governments that either want to reform the Washington Consensus-a euphemism for the mix of We would like to thank the journal editors...

... represent a very real challenge to US hegemony in Latin America. The second is the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), an initiative centered on the Venezuelan state. ALBA means"dawn" in Spanish, and there is a real feeling that what we are witnessing is what Hugo Chavez Frias, president...

... attempt by high-ranking military officers. In the following year, the constitutionally elected president was impeached for corruption. In 1998 Hugo Chavez, the leader of the February 1992 coup attempt, won the presidency by a large majority. His victory provoked euphoria among disorganized...

... include: Jacqui Alexander, Gloria Anzaldua, Karma Chavez, Cathy J. Cohen, The Combahee River Collective, Angela Davis, Qwo-Li Driskill, Cricket Keating, Audre Lorde, Marfa Lugones, Mari Matsuda, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and the authors appearing in Cherrfe Moraga and Gloria...

... to be ideologically variable, such as the discourse of Hugo Chavez for instance, the enemy posed within the universal discursive structure does not necessarily have to signify a leftist threat. Yet within these specific cases of McCarthyite and Tea Party discourse, the enemy is represented as 'leftist...

... Uribe (the conservative leader closely aligned with the US) and Hugo Chavez (the socialist leader famous for his pointed criticism of the US), women became a prime staging ground for the battle. This rivalry was expressed through female beauty and the role of plastic surgery in each country. Venezuela...

.... As anthropologist Leo Chavez convincingly demonstrates, the public discourse around the "criminality" of the undocumented relies on language designed to create anxiety about "invasions," a "flood" of illegals, of "unassimilated" Hispanic "others," and the "re-conquest" of the Southwest by angry separatist Mexicans...

... on forms of citizenship and participation under Venezuela president Hugo Chavez. Claire Duncanson and Catherine Eschle look at the connections between gender and the discourses of the nuclear weapons state through an analysis of a 2006 British White Paper on the Trident nuclear weapons program. Finally...

..., Flamboyant Sommelier: Chavez, Citizenship, and Populism Anthony Peter Spanakos 521 Gender and the Nuclear Weapons State: A Feminist Critique of the UK Government's White Paper on Trident Claire Duncanson and Catherine Eschle 545 The Imperial Warrior in Hollywood: Rambo and Beyond Carl Boggs and Tom Pollard...

... itself? The answer Dussel offers is twofold. First, there is a party intermediary, between the community and institutions. These liberatory parties reflect the headiness that has come with the election of "Nestor Kirchner, Tabare Vasquez, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro...

... to union activists and students of the labor movement for its discussion of the two major attempts from within the movement to engage in progressive change. The New Voice Movement fundamentally took over the AFL-CIO under the leadership of John Sweeney, Richard Trumka, and Linda Chavez-Thompson in 1995...

..., the subsequent Bolivarian Revolution was more dependent upon the charisma of Hugo Chavez than any political party. In Ecuador, indigenous peoples became the motor force of change, not, as many expected, the unionized working class. In Bolivia as well, a Pink Tide government brought to power by indigenous...

..., Mussolini, and Chavez, for example. Instead, they focus exclusively on issues of process. Consequently, they seem to oppose any politician who falls outside the establishment center, which, as we will see, clouds their analysis and undercuts their concluding recommendations. The authors argue that President...