"Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system, capitalism is the realm of injustice and tyranny of the richest against the poorest' (Chavez, 2000) – This statement was made by Hugo Chavez president of Venezuela in a BBC1 interview. The president of Venezuela from 1999-2013 leader of the ‘Bolivarian Revolution' a socialist political program leading the fight for independence for Latin America. Chavez vision was to free the interference of foreign power with revolutionary Marxist ideology. Chavez strived to create a Latin American alliance to expel U.S. influence to compete politically and economically with the European Union. Chavez died on 5th March 2013 at the age of 58. Throughout his rain, Venezuelan people were deeply divided with the
revolution? The poor, the workers.” By striking pity and making the reader reflect, Chavez grabs
On the tenth anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, Chavez utilizes King’s association with civil rights in order to give foundation to his own words. Chavez knows the anniversary is “...the best possible opportunity to recall the principles with which [their] struggle has grown and matured…” (ln 5-7) because King has values regarding civil rights that are synonymous to his own. Both Chavez and King possess the value that the human life is special and no one has the right to take it away. By referring to a well-known, wildly respected, and successful leader with a similar cause, Chavez has ensured that the audience will be receptive to his message that the use of nonviolence is a better solution to a problem than violence. A later reference to Gandhi further strengthens this effect. Chavez praises the effectiveness of a boycott, an act in which people forbid relations with a group in order to achieve change, made popular by Gandhi. The allusion to commonly revered supporters of the principles Chavez has built himself upon, gives him the credibility to gain the attention of the audience.
By depicting a sense of morals, Chavez is able to support the nature of nonviolence over any other possibility. The simplicity put into a single civil movement, allows for millions to participate from all across the country. The American people “yearn for justice,” and it is such yearning that appeals to such large crowds. Chavez also states that nonviolence “provides the opportunity to stay on the offensive.” By doing so, there is an advantage over the opposing side. Once escalated and turned violent, there is a “total demoralization” of the causae. In order to remain as morally good as the cause being fought, Chavez demonstrates how nonviolence would accomplish such.
Chavez explains how “if we are committed to nonviolence only as a strategy or tactic then if i8t fails our only alternative is to turn to violence.” This shows how even though individuals know what they want, if that fails, they most likely will resort to the option they once we opposed to. In the face of the war this is understandable, however, groups and individuals should try to stick with what their heart wants. As they are the ones that will bring essential change. By showing empathy, Chavez appeals to the lower class citizens showing how difficult it may be for them during this time. Chavez tells how the poor, and the workers get killed first in a violent time, which is sadly true. Even though the poor and these workers give everything, they don’t really gain anything at all. This needs to be reevaluated and overruled because the wealthy evidently do nothing to help their
Laborers all over America are, even today, feeling the effects of Chavez’s activism. He helped to spread awareness of the injustices and unfair treatment felt by the working class.
Cesar Chavez was a Latino civil rights activist, born to Librado and Juana Estrada Chavez on the thirty-first of March in the year 1927. During The Great Depression, he was obligated to move to California with his family to work in the vine fields. After moving to California as a young man he joined the United States Army serving two years during World War II. He later married Helen Fabela Chavez and together they had eight children. Chavez later passed away on April twenty-third 1993 in San Luis, Arizona, he was able to achieve the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 for his civil rights movement. Therefore Cesar Chavez is certainly a hero, he improved the life of many Latino immigrant workers during the Great Depression by promoting non violence protesting, improving working conditions, and creating an organization.
Cesar Chavez international hero who helped farm workers obtain better working conditions in the California; in addition, he was often thought as the Hispanic Martin King Jr. His accomplishments ended up changing millions of lives for the better, he would give farm workers the future they hoped and dreamed of. Realizing the struggles his parents went through gave Chavez the inspiration to change farm worker's lives.
Chavez uses one of his rhetorical questions in paragraph 13, that states, “Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution?” Then he goes on to make a great point that “poor people” & “Workers” are affected by the violence. This helps him convince the reader by telling how people are being hurt by the violent structures of others making the reader feel like it’s “wrong” to have violent resistance, which is leaning the reader more towards an agreement with the writer.
Cesar Chavez who is a Mexican man, he was a confidence man who wanted to do a movement to fight for their right so he decided to march to protest for the Mexicans rights and what they believe in. Chavez believed that there was nowhere that the movement was going to go to, he decided to start a march through Saracamento and decided to build his own group of protestor about three hundred were part of it. Chavez was losing hope, this was going to be a long struggle for the workers. The march to Saracamento was going to be harsh, before Chavez many leader were europeans looking. Many Mexican Americans kids were the population with the lower who were most likely to graduate and most likely to drop out of school. Mexican Americans were the ones who were treated badly, if you spoke Spanish they were even to be hitted, and send to sit in the corner.
When Hugo Chavez emerged as an iconic figure against anti-imperialism he was supported by Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Raul Castro (Cuba). The reason why these leftist political leaders supported Chavez because of the intentions Chavez had to get people out of poverty and make Venezuela a rich Latin Nation. Another reason towards why Chavez was supported was because he demonstrated that the U.S. was not needed in order to prosper. Due to this, Chavez main opponent became the United States specially under the control of President George W. Bush. Since Chavez was becoming more popular in Latin America and was being aided by Cuba, the United States felt threatened and got
Further on in the article, Chavez adds power to his contentions with implications. "The boycott, Gandhi taught, is the most nearly perfect instrument of nonviolent change." This implication to Gandhi, a notable and regarded advocate for serene resistance, adds validity to Chavez' contention by suggesting that Gandhi would have concurred with and bolstered Chavez' claims. Chavez increases on his believability by making a historical allusion soon after. "Examine history. Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution?
As I said before, many critics agreed that Hugo Chavez has been able to diminished Venezuelan democracy to convert it to a competitive authoritarian regime. Chavez has controlled the country and stills does, in a way in that using populism and his policy of clientism he gets the masses and specially the poor to support him and agreed with him in many of his reforms and actions. Allying himself with leftist countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and especially Cuba, Chavez has implemented what he calls a “Bolivarian Revolution”, revolution that allows him to have a complete control of the country. Furthermore, Chavez has been using the oil revenues not only as a method of getting international support for his ideas and type of regime but also, for his own personal enrichment
Ángel Víctor Paz Estenssoro was a Bolivian politician and a President of Bolivia. He ran for President 8 times only succeeding half of the times. The years he ran are 1947, 1951, 1960, 1964, 1978, 1979, 1980, and 1985. The years that he won are 1951, 1960, 1964, and 1985. He was born in Tarija, Bolivia on October 2, 1907.
First, I am Venezuelan, born free and in democracy, I grew up in democracy and now I feel that this Government, which began with Hugo Chávez and following with the dictator Nicolas Maduro, has violated the rights of Venezuelans. In addition, in my case and particular family case I have experienced discrimination and violence, and members of my family have also suffered. One of my brothers, as a result of such widespread violence was shot in the back and it has been paraplegic. My mother, because the desperation to see him in that condition, and by the ravages of sustained suffering, she is also in bed without being able to walk, because a stroke affected her. My father due to the concern of the threats that Tupamaros had made me, also suffered a stroke. All these reasons made me hate those who govern
With an economy dominated by the production of oil, Venezuela has enjoyed the highest standard of living in Latin America. In spite of its success in the oil industry, agriculture and manufacturing also play important roles in Venezuela’s economy. With this in mind, it would seem as though Venezuela’s economic state has flourished. Rather, it has suffered from the effects of political influence, corruption, and poor economic management. The distribution of wealth across Venezuela has caused the elite to benefit at the cost of the working people. This is mainly due to the economic and political structure of the country. Even with the plentiful resources Venezuela possesses, it is constantly being threatened by political instability,