The Chávez Authoritarian Experiment / [electronic resource] Brewer-Carías, Allan R. creator author. text enk 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (434 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). This book examines the process of dismantling the democratic institutions and protections in Venezuela under the Hugo Chávez regime. The actions of the Chávez government have influenced similar processes and undemocratic manoeuvrings in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Honduras. Since the election of Hugo Chávez as president of Venezuela in 1998, a sinister form of nationalistic authoritarianism has arisen at the expense of long-established democratic standards. During the past decade, the 1999 Venezuelan Constitution has been systematically attacked by all branches of the Chávez government, particularly by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, which has legitimized the Chávez-ordered constitutional violations. The Chávez regime has purposely defrauded the Constitution and severely restricted representative government, all in the name of a supposedly participatory democracy controlled by a popularly supported central government. This volume illustrates how an authoritarian, nondemocratic government has been established in Venezuela. Allan R. Brewer-Carías. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). JL3831 .B7318 2010 987.06/42 9780511762062 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511762062 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511762062 UkCbUP 100506 20180107143412.0 CR9780511762062