: About Me

The antecedents of corruption and mediocrity that had characterized Venezuelan politics during much of the twentieth century were an acceptable excuse in 1998 for electing as president a little known coroner whose only political experience had been a failed coup attempt. Once the people invested their hopes in the charismatic Hugo Chavez, his controversial ideas and policies ignited the polarization of his country and the whole subcontinent. At the same time that Chavez started to know what power felt like, and to develop an inescapable craving for it, Colombia was giving itself what at th...