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Latin American project that combines popular nationalism, anti-imperialism, social redistribution, and strong presidential leadership, using the state and strategic resources to promote sovereignty and popular inclusion.
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I want a sovereign homeland under strong presidential leadership, using nationalized strategic resources for redistribution and popular inclusion.
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Leans further toward public than 91% of the 274 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Economy is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A Venezuelan statesman, Chávez led 21st-century socialism, nationalizing sectors, funding social programs with oil, and concentrating power in a Bolivarian project of strong popular and nationalist appeal.
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A South American presidential republic, Venezuela lives under an authoritarian regime of socialist and nationalist orientation, marked by concentration of power, a prolonged economic crisis, and heavy emigration of its population.
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A South American presidential republic, Venezuela lives under an authoritarian regime of socialist and nationalist orientation, marked by concentration of power, a prolonged economic crisis, and heavy emigration of its population.
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Under Hugo Chávez, from 1999 to 2013, Venezuela lived '21st-century socialism', with a new constitution, oil-funded social programs, nationalizations, currency and price controls, deep polarization, confrontation with the United States and power concentrated in the president.
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Current of Sankara, Samora Machel, Nkrumah and Nyerere joining pan-Africanism, Black consciousness, anticolonial struggle, agrarian collectivization and self-reliance against neocolonialism and racism.
Socialist current born of national liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, defending economic sovereignty, resource nationalization, non-alignment, and solidarity among peoples of the Global South against imperialism.
Current that mobilizes the people against economic elites, defending redistribution, public control, national sovereignty, plebiscitary democracy, and broad social policy in popular anti-establishment language.
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Current that unites a socialist economy with traditional values, defending social protection and a strong state role alongside family, order, and customs, far from the cultural progressivism of liberal lefts.
A synthesis of fascism and social democracy: nationalism, a strong state and authoritarian leadership alongside public healthcare and pensions, labor rights and redistribution. The Comintern used the term against social democrats.
Current that builds socialism from the countryside, with a single party, collectivization into villages and cooperatives, food self-sufficiency and protection of land and forests, as in Nyerere's Ujamaa.
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