Another Cuba?
An army of foreign volunteers has the opposition worried
HUGO CHÁVEZ, Venezuela's president, once remarked that his country is steering towards “the same sea of happiness” as Cuba. However hard Mr Chávez also insists that his “revolution” is inspired by an independence hero, Simón Bolívar, rather than by Karl Marx or Fidel Castro, some of his opponents are not convinced. The alleged “Cubanisation” of Venezuela is an issue that will not go away.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Another Cuba?”
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