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Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era: The Security Threat to America

Author(s): Luis Fleischman (Author)

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Publication Date: 1 May 2013
Language: English
Print length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1612346014
ISBN-13: 9781612346014

Book Description

Hugo Chavez has recently undergone three surgeries for cancer, prompting much speculation and anxiety about the impact of his death. What will a post-Chavez future look like, not only in Venezuela but also in the region? In Latin America in the Post-Chavez Era, Luis Fleischman examines Chavez’s highly controversial Bolivarian revolution, which has expanded beyond Venezuela to other countries in South America and whose sphere of influence also extends to Central America and the Caribbean.

Across Latin America, Chavez has financially supported political candidates or presidents in office dedicated to producing dramatic socialist change, cementing authoritarianism, and reducing American influence in the region. Meanwhile, China’s influence has been increasing and may evolve beyond an economic presence into a more political role. It is in this volatile context that Chavez’s destabilizing activities―including cooperation with regional as well Islamist terrorist organizations, drug cartels, and rogue states, particularly Cuba and Iran―take on ominous proportions.

Fleischman argues that Chavez’s dangerous policies of consolidating control of the government and the media, exporting revolution, and strengthening alliances with subversive elements are likely to continue even after he is no longer in office. The shape of this post-Chavez world is one that Americans should watch with grave concern while taking appropriate measures to counteract Chavez’s legacy.

About the Author

LUIS FLEISCHMAN is an adjunct professor of sociology and political science at Florida Atlantic University Honors College. He has a PhD in sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York City and has worked as senior adviser for the Menges Hemispheric Security Project at the Center for Security Policy. He is the editor of the Americas Report, where he writes about the Bolivarian revolution, its alliances with Iran and terrorist groups, and the rise of antidemocratic forces in the region. He lives in Jupiter, Florida.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Latin America in the Post-Chávez Era is a comprehensive and objective analysis of the phenomenon of radical movements and regimes in Latin America associated with the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s ‘twenty-first-century socialism.’ Luis Fleischman traces the origins of these movements to a crisis of legitimacy of deficient democratic political systems and points out that Chávez’s regime is a truly revolutionary project whose very nature and ideology might have far-reaching consequences for the region. He concludes with a thoughtful set of policy prescriptions, in the short and long term, to halt the advance of these revolutionary movements and strengthen and consolidate democracy in the region. This book is an important contribution to the debate on the future of Latin America and the U.S.-Latin American relationship.”–DR. ANGEL RABASA, senior political scientist, Rand Corporation

“Luis Fleischman goes where the Director of National Intelligence and other senior officials of the U.S administration fear to tread. He undertakes a sober, hard-headed look at the mischief makers in the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Fleischman offers an important study of the causes and consequences of radical anti-Americanism in Latin America. It is a work of enduring value, even if El Commandante Chavez passed from the earthly scene on March 5, 2013.”–DR. RAY WALSER, senior policy analyst, Heritage Foundation

“This is an invaluable book, with an enviable grasp of the mounting threat of the Bolivarian Revolution–the handiwork of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and carried forward by an alarming number of regional allies–to the security and stability of South American democracies and to the United States itself. Fleischman moves sure-footedly from country to country, to the Western Hemisphere as a whole, and then far beyond, to Chavez’s close friends in Tehran. Bravo!”–DR. MICHAEL LEDEEN, Freedom Scholar, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; former special advisor to the secretary of state; and author of Virgil’s Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan Miracles

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