Lo bueno y lo malo de Chávez/Dealing With the Good and Bad Hugo Chavez

By Marcela Sanchez
washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Thursday, August 25, 2005; 6:03 PM
"The truth is that Chavez is a lot of both. He is the Robin Hood who supports the poor with the money of the rich, and he is the ideologue who pushes an anti-imperialist, socialist agenda.
Unfortunately, the Bush administration has chosen to take on the Chavez challenge purely in terms of the latter.... This kind of one-dimensional thinking blinds U.S. policymakers to the fact that Chavez's influence in Latin America is not all pernicious and, no matter how much it is hated, may be presenting solutions to Latin America's real problems in ways that Washington is no"(full article)/ "La verdad es que Chávez es ambas cosas. Es el Robin Hood que apoya a los pobres con el dinero de los ricos y es el ideólogo que impulsa una agenda anti imperialista y socialista...Este tipo de enfoque unidimensional no le deja ver a los políticos estadounidenses el hecho de que no toda la influencia de Chávez en América Latina es perniciosa y, por detestable que sea, está ofreciendo soluciones a problemas reales de América Latina en formas que Washington no está ofreciendo "(artículo completo)