Same thing with Chávez,. Before being elected he denounced Castro and openly admired Pérez Jiménez, a US-backed dictator.
right, they were rooting for him to fail and the oil was his one point of leverage
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Oil and the Armed Forces, since Chávez reinstated some benefits they had lost during the bipartisan democratic years.
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Chávez was, after all, a military officer first and a populist with leftist sympathies second.
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